It is like looking up a sole-trader's business address at Companies House. If they had meant the world to phone them up to wish them "Happy Birthday" they would have put their number on the website itself. The whois address isn't like a Live Journal or Dream Width profile contact link.
There are people who I would be OK with doing this to me (though I'd wish I'd made a better way available) but yes I think it is stalking.
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If it was a personal domain you may not have to include a contact address/phone number. My .me.uk whois registration says The registrant is a non-trading individual who has opted to have their address omitted from the WHOIS service - but it took me a couple of months to figure out how to do that.
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Date: 2009-06-21 12:19 pm (UTC)It is like looking up a sole-trader's business address at Companies House. If they had meant the world to phone them up to wish them "Happy Birthday" they would have put their number on the website itself.
The whois address isn't like a Live Journal or Dream Width profile contact link.
There are people who I would be OK with doing this to me (though I'd wish I'd made a better way available) but yes I think it is stalking.
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If it was a personal domain you may not have to include a contact address/phone number. My .me.uk whois registration says
The registrant is a non-trading individual who has opted to have their address omitted from the WHOIS service
- but it took me a couple of months to figure out how to do that.