Imagine a customer complains to you about a product they purchased online from YOURBRAND.COM. Only you don’t own this domain name, and the problematic product is a counterfeit. You need this website to be shut down immediately. In the past, your first move may have been to locate the owner of the website, using WHOIS, the protocol used to query registrar databases for domain name ownership information. However, now when you go to WHOIS, the registrant’s information is missing, other than a jumble of numbers and letters for an email address and the registrant’s country. This is the post-WHOIS blackout… Read more