| ▲ | NewJazz 6 days ago |
| Also .us domains don't have who is privacy. |
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| ▲ | lazide 6 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| Yeah I found that out when I stupidly used my real contact info, and ended up getting spammed all to hell. |
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| ▲ | talideon 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| WHOIS privacy isn't a registry-level service. It's a registrar-level service. |
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| ▲ | Kwpolska 6 days ago | parent [-] | | It’s both. Some domains do not allow WHOIS privacy (.us is one of them), some have it built-in, while most don’t care and registrars can fill in with fake data. |
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| ▲ | gerdesj 6 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Please don't keep us in suspense ... who is privacy? |
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| ▲ | stwrzn 6 days ago | parent [-] | | They probably meant "whois privacy"[1] (without the space). Whois is basically a way to get information about a domain name (and many other stuff).
Whois privacy just ensures that your address, name and other stuff is not public. [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_privacy | | |
| ▲ | imcritic 6 days ago | parent [-] | | They were probably joking when they asked that question. Your reply doesn't seem sarcastic, so I take it you genuinely r/whoosh'ed (that's a reference to a subreddit about situations where someone is acting clueless). | | |
| ▲ | 0_gravitas 6 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Realistically, I don't think HN is the place for those kinds of jokes, which are best kept for reddit/twitter. | | |
| ▲ | kitchi 6 days ago | parent [-] | | Yeah I'm increasingly seeing these reddit-style low effort jokes on here, hopefully it's transient as folks acclimatize to the culture and customs here. |
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| ▲ | stwrzn 6 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | I know ;) Some people still value an explanation though. |
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