1. When WHOIS Privacy is purchased for a domain name, funds in the OpenSRS account are placed on hold and a confirmation email is sent to the domain's admin contact. The contact has 10 days to confirm the purchase, or the funds will be released and the service will not be enabled. 2. Once confirmed, the domain's information is changed to that of the Tucows WHOIS Privacy Service (see 'Record Information' below).
If I'm reading this correctly, there is a window in which registrant info is unmasked in the WHOIS data.
That's less useful than one might hope, since -- especially if the user is not online to confirm the privacy request -- the data can be harvested by spammers or harrassers.
It must be possible to register a domain *with* privacy protection in place. _______________________________________________ domains-gen mailing list [email protected] http://discuss.tucows.com/mailman/listinfo/domains-gen
