DEBRIS.COMgood for a laugh, or possibly an aneurysm

Domain registrar Dotster announced a nice privacy option today: “you can now choose to have your personal information removed from the bulk Whois list that Dotster is required to provide to other registrars.”

I am sure this won’t stop most spam, but it appears that it might stop spam from other domain registrars, such as buydomains.com.

Dotster explains:

All ICANN accredited registrars, including Dotster, are required … to provide Whois customer data to any competing registrar upon request and upon payment of a fee. By logging into your account and choosing
the remove option, your personal information will not be included
in this list if we are asked to provide it to a competitor.

Kudos to Dotster for working to protect my data, rather than selling it as often as possible. (Thanks too for making this opt-out a simple one-click link in the announcement email.)