It’s confidential information and they could get sued for doing it. In most situations the company will not name who violated a company policy. Like it or not, these sorts of violations of company policy happen all the time in all industries. Should the perpetrator be named, tarred, and feathered? It would be a bad decision for an employee to disclose this information, but good and bad people make bad decisions all the time. If one of them decided to break company policy and disclose this, there’s very little that can be done to stop that. But there are limits.Īs I mentioned, my Moniker and Go Daddy account reps know which domains I own. Perhaps there need to be more controls within the registrar (and I’m sure at other registrars, too). It depends on the details of what happened. Have you ever made a snap decision that seemed like no big deal at the time you made it, then afterward you ask yourself how you could have been so stupid? I know I have. But Moniker has said that distributing the information was against company policy. I don’t know how the employee accessed the information in this case. I’ve always taken this into consideration when registering domain names. I suspect their boss and their bosses boss up the chain could get access, too. They also know the few domains I have protected by whois privacy (mainly because they are for new ideas I had at one point).īeyond that not many people at these companies should know what I have registered with them. That includes my Moniker and Go Daddy account reps. There are certain people who know just about every domain name I own. Even if the information was publicly available, I wouldn’t want my registrar to disclose certain information without my permission.
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I’d be rather upset if the company disclosed that I owned a particular domain name. This is a pretty bad lack of judgment by the individual who did this.
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What I can gather from reading this blog entry is that an employee found out who owned a domain name protected by the company’s Moniker Privacy Services and disclosed this information to the domain owner’s boss. I really don’t know all the details behind what happened. My first reaction was that this whole thing was being blown way out of proportion, so I wanted to wait and see how I felt in a few days. I’ve waited a few days to write about the Moniker whois privacy flap.