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Coincidentally, the service some registrars use to do the verification (wdrp.name-services.com) is down right now. How much fun must it be to watch your business taken off the 'net because you can't click a "this information is accurate" button.

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When it is up, navigate to name-services.com and see the most dodgy shady looking site. It does nothing to instil confidence in this process.

I had to spend a good 30 minutes trawl through Dreamhost's forums to get an official "OK" that this was a legit email.

I had to recheck three times that I wrote "name-services.com" right and didn't land on "typo domain" by mistake.

Nope, that's pretty much it.

Absolutely. I have a few domains registered with Dreamhost too, and I almost didn't bother to check because I was positive that email was spam. And the Dreamhost reps couldn't be bothered to write more than a few words about it on the forum. Namecheap and a few others seem to be sending out identical emails.

For any phishers out there, there is an obvious opportunity waiting.

The Web of Trust Firefox add-on throws a scary warning "The site has a poor reputation based on user ratings"

https://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/name-services.com?utm_sou...

eNom are owned by Demand Media, so that's pretty much what you can expect!

Actually, they are no longer owned by Demand Media, rather they are a brand under Rightside.

It's barely worth differentiating between Demand Media and Rightside Group (and Donuts, for that matter).

WDRP is different from the Whois Accuracy Program. All that's required there is that registrars email registrants and admin contacts a reminder showing the current WHOIS information for their domains. No confirmation is needed.

The Whois Accuracy Program is different, and requires contacts actually confirm stuff.

Ironically name-services.com uses whois protection itself.

No irony: the registrar has to validate the details they have on record. If you have WHOIS privacy set with the registrar, they still have your unmasked details, in which case they contact you on that address, not the one presented in WHOIS.

This is part of the reason why you should use your registrar's WHOIS privacy service rather than some third-party one: by providing the registrar with incorrect details, you're in breach of terms of service ICANN requires registrars enforce.

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Your expectation would be correct if GP said "downright", instead of "down right".

Same shit, pedantism sucks.

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