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Registrant:
Google Inc.
(DOM-258879)
Please contact contact-admin@google.com
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View
CA
94043
US

Domain Name: google.com

Registrar Name: Markmonitor.com
Registrar Whois: whois.markmonitor.com
Registrar Homepage: https://www.markmonitor.com/

Administrative Contact:
DNS Admin
(NIC-14290820)
Google Inc.
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View
CA
94043
US
dns-admin@google.com
+1.6506234000
Fax- +1.6506188571
Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
DNS Admin
(NIC-1340144)
Google Inc.
2400 E. Bayshore Pkwy
Mountain View
CA
94043
US
dns-admin@google.com
+1.6503300100
Fax- +1.6506181499

Created on..............: 1997-Sep-15.
Expires on..............: 2011-Sep-14.
Record last updated on..: 2006-Dec-29 14:38:40.

Domain servers in listed order:

NS3.GOOGLE.COM
NS4.GOOGLE.COM
NS1.GOOGLE.COM
NS2.GOOGLE.COM

You probably guess what is this! WHOIS lookup! I didnt know that all of my details would be provided to every person who simply goes to http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ and type desired domain. Now i am asking myself is it worth and safe to put my real info on registration of domain?!

By law you have to fill out the correct information when you register a domain name. However, when you register you can request that your details are hidden. For example, my WHOIS record contains the following:

Registrant: Rob Valkass

Registrant type:
UK Individual

Registrant's address:
The registrant is a non-trading individual who has opted to have their
address omitted from the WHOIS service.

Your name will always be shown, but you can request when you register to have your address hidden from view. Most good registrars do it automatically for you when you register as a person rather than a business. If not then email who you registered with (or the company responsible for maintaining your WHOIS record, Nominet here in the UK) and get it changed.

I didn?t know it, I think it?s risky to have your personal info available for everybody. That's why you always have to read the small print and not only click next next next when you register a domain.

It shouldn't really be a problem. I purchased Who Is protection for an extra dollar on my domains. That I believe gets rid of it all I don't remember seeing anything on my domain name last time I did that. But the recent one I have does in fact show my information which at this point in time hasn't caused any problems for me. With the internet being around this long I haven't really heard of that many problems caused by this. Most predators are too dumb in the end to try it.

You can run WHOIS on IPs as well, though this will just tell you the person's ISP company (or organization, if its a school/work computer).

Your concerns on the whois details are really a little too paranoid, there are many other sources that can provide personal information, and far more detailed then those that can be found on the results of a whois search.if you are just a person hosting a personal site then by all means block your details or hide them depending on your registrant's options. however if you are running a business that is related to your website then it is basically pointless as the government hosts several search sites that are able to provide details on you and your business, not to mention the day to day scam sites that milk your personal details and gather them together to provide very interesting details on people. look around and search out a personal database repository.... there are several out there for a fee you can get just about anything that you wanted to know about just about anyone.anyway just my two cents worth....