Email addresses with whois records

"Lois" <auto-newsgroups DeleteThis @wordsweave.com> wrote in message
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 > Now that all (or most?) whois records require a password to be entered
 > manually to access the records, are these records safe from email address
 > harvesters?


The email address isn't hidden at all. You can see it in any "WHOIS"
search. See for yourself: <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.affordablehost.com/domcheck/check.php" target="_blank">http://www.affordablehost.com/domcheck/check.php</a>

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"Lois" <auto-newsgroups RemoveThis @wordsweave.com> wrote in message
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 >
 > I know you can see them in whois searches, but most whois pages (not
yours)
 > require people to enter a password from an image before going to whois
 > results. Since spiders can't read the password, I thought that maybe they
 > couldn't access the results.

The majority of whois scripts are installed by individuals and, like ours,
aren't password protected. Someone looking to harvest email addresses isn't
going to go to a major registrar and run single WHOIS searches. They are
going to install a script to automatically run searches and save the email
addresses in a database for later use.

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"Lois" wrote:
: > I know you can see them in whois searches, but most whois pages (not
: yours)
: > require people to enter a password from an image before going to whois
: > results. Since spiders can't read the password, I thought that maybe
they
: > couldn't access the results.

"Tina - AffordableHOST, Inc." responded:
: The majority of whois scripts are installed by individuals and, like ours,
: aren't password protected.

The majority of whois pages I've accessed lately are password protected, but
I haven't been to that many.


Someone looking to harvest email addresses isn't
: going to go to a major registrar and run single WHOIS searches.

Yeah, I knew that.


They are
: going to install a script to automatically run searches and save the email
: addresses in a database for later use.

The ability to execute such a script is what my question was about. Thanks.

Lois
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Lois wrote:

 > Now that all (or most?) whois records require a password to be entered
 > manually to access the records, are these records safe from email address
 > harvesters?

No ...
o They can still be harvested manually.
o The server may be compromised.
o Mail headers can still be sniffed.
o Databases can still be sold.

sorry.

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Spake Lois unto thee:

 > Now that all (or most?) whois records require a password to be entered
 > manually to access the records, are these records safe from email address
 > harvesters?

Far from it. In *nix you can simply type "whois domain.ext" on a command
line and it will retrieve and display the record for it. I've had no
problem doing this for any domain that I wanted to query. All it takes is
a nasty fellow and an automated program to do this, and it would be easy
to harvest addresses for any domain.

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"Lois" <auto-newsgroups.RemoveThis@wordsweave.com> skrev i melding
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 > Now that all (or most?) whois records require a password to be entered
 > manually to access the records, are these records safe from email address
 > harvesters?

The type of harvester that looks through domain WHOIS records don't use
these scripts, they would rather do WHOIS requests directly to the WHOIS
servers for those domain extensions and domain registrars.

And considering that domain WHOIS records are public, and that a WHOIS
record must contain a valid e-mail address, a spammer out to catch e-mail
addresses can and will find ways to search through domain WHOIS registries
as well.

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