Observed arrival · 2026-11-09
WHOIS Experiment: Three Domains, One Privacy Question
A running experiment tracks calls, texts, and emails reaching domains with different WHOIS privacy settings.
- For
- Domain owners weighing WHOIS privacy
- Worth noticing
- The domain names stay hidden until the experiment ends to reduce the chance that readers skew the counts.
Field notes
The page describes three domains registered the same day at one registrar, with identical placeholder sites and different WHOIS-privacy conditions. Two screened phone numbers and matching email addresses serve as controls and never appear in WHOIS records; made-up names and a street address keep postal mail from reaching a real person. The domain names are withheld until the experiment ends to reduce interference, though the extracted page says the latest counts are still loading.
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