Today’s question does not get asked enough. Perhaps that is because it seems straightforward to many experienced SEOs (although nothing in the field of SEO is ever as straight forward as it seems).

The process of searching for a website’s owner is referred to as a “WhoIs search”, as in who is the owner of a particular site or domain. The search operation is often carried out if there is any ...

As discussed in our November 2018 tIPsheet, Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is now in effect and has caused businesses in the United States and abroad to contemplate how they are ...

With these in mind, some options for addressing domain name disputes include: 1. Use Intermediaries. Registrars, hosting providers, and internet service providers (ISPs) have the ability to contact ...

When you register a domain, the registrar has your identifying information. However, you can choose domain privacy protection if you don’t want the names, addresses, phone numbers, etc. of website ...

The launch of seven new top-level domains is again highlighting concerns about the thoroughness and privacy of publicly searchable databases. Whois, a database that contains personal contact ...

When registering a domain name, you're required to provide personal contact information for the WHOIS database, which is a directory showing who is the owner of a domain. While this promotes trust and ...

Cisco security researchers recently revealed that since mid-2013, a bug in Google Apps made the WHOIS information on 282,867 domains available publically despite the fact that owners had specifically ...

When Internet regulators approved a new set of top-level domains last year, the idea was to create a piece of cyberspace that was a bit less congested than the saturated dot-com domain. But as ...