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Web domain owners paid EasyDNS to cloak their contact info from sight. It was blabbed via public Who

Registrar apologies as punters wait for spam tsunami

 
By Rebecca Hill 2 Nov 2018 
 

 

Domain name registrar EasyDNS has ‘fessed up to accidentally leaking cloaked contact details for about 1,500 domain owners in Whois query results for just over 24 hours.

 

Those records – such as names, phone numbers, email addresses, and postal addresses – should have been kept private, and not disclosed in Whois searches, due to privacy protections requested by the domain owners.

 

However, between Thursday, October 25 1230 ET and Friday, October 26 1500 ET, the opposite happened, and information folks had paid to keep under seal were revealed in Whois searches. The Canadian biz notified its customers of the screw-up today, November 2.

 

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