Since auDA’s inception of December 2000, some 26 years ago, the public WHOIS has shown domain name ownership such as Registrant Contact Name, Organisation and Email address.
A number of Domain Investors reached out to us today to ask why the WHOIS on Expiring Domain Names now HIDES the Registrant Ownership and Contact information.
For example, Discipline.com.au is dropping tomorrow, but for the first time in history, THIS is what the public WHOIS records show:
“Domain Pending Purge”
auDA now HIDE a domain name’s Registrant information the second it appears on the Expired Domains list over at Identity Digital.
auDA (.au Domain Administration) and Identity Digital don’t appear to have warned the public or issued any kind of press release. They’ve simply just turned OFF any Registrant information related to a domain name at the moment it is placed on the Expired Domain Name list.
There are many questions to be asked, and possibly many catastrophic after-effects for businesses, companies and corporations going forward, so feel free to start asking them in the comments section below.
auDA Please Explain why.
They may have valid reasons?
Can.au Registrants now request Whois Privacy like in most other domain extensions?
I see GoDaddy doing this already for their ,au name whois search results. No Registrant info at all. Maybe this is to help increase contact and sales enquiries only via the paid Godaddy Broker Service….
.NZ, .Com, .UK and 1000 other domain extensions have had whois privacy for years.
Wow no public announcement or explanation from auDA. Interesting to see how this plays out.
Drop.com.au has just begun hiding bids altogether. Today is the first time in memory that there are no auction results. It just says “ENDED” on the names that received bids. No more expired auction sales results.
Maybe a stupid question, when a domain expires, why do you want the old owner details visible anyway?
A better question is why is there no one creating a domain auction service in Australia? Either for domainers to offload their domains or another expired domain service? Does no one want to invest in building a competitor?
It may be that only 1 person has the auda connections that works to catch the .au names?
Not even the big name Registrars like GoDaddy who took momey for .au dropping backorders ( with no refunds ) have any chance.
Remember NETFLEET V DROP ? Time flies.
Ha! I’ve been informed that David Warmuz (Above, Trillion, Drop) has written an article about me over at my old domainer blog that Ned O’Meara and myself made very popular over many years, before he ran it into the ground, as he did with DNTrade, Netfleet…
Although his writing style is very confusing, I have nothing to do with “DomainRescue.com.au” or “AusReg.com.au” so he might want to get his facts right.
Nice attempt to divert the attention away from his monopoly auction though, and his association with SEO WEB RECOVERY, and what happened with the UBER.com.au domain name, and the fact that he now HIDES bidding prices on his auctions so everything is even more hidden, less transparent, than it was before!
We need another Registrar to step up and create competition against the monopoly!
Emperor Warmuz only likes it when you use his monopoly platform to get expired names. Any other way is bad. Did Warmuz force auDA connections to do this so everyone has to exclusively use his platform only?