Whois History...

I recently transfered a domain name from my GoDaddy account to somebody else's GoDaddy account and I was expecting the new owner to have to checkout and enter his details for the domain name but that didn't happen. A whois on the domain shortly after the transfer showed all my customers private details, within 5 minutes he had added privacy through DomainsByProxy but is still concerned that his personal information was put on record. Is this really a possibility or did he change it quick enough?

i think you have nothing to worry about





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? is the new owner your customer?
your own check of the whois might have allowed the recording of the personal information. depends on what you used to check it.





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no point in worrying - if it was just 5 mins -no history





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I concur. I would also suggest that in the future, if someone's worried about privacy, to get a post office box, and a voice mail number from someone like Evoice. That way, you're complying with WHOIS regulations, but not exposing home addresses, cell phone numbers, etc.

I may be wrong, but I'm not sure that all of you are correct in saying there is nothing to worry about since it was only 5 minutes.
It's one thing to do a current whois and see the domain privacy protected. However, if someone is, for example, a premium member at dnsstuff.com where they can do a detailed whois history search, IIRC (it's been a while since I was a member), the history search will provide whois details at every increment that the records were amended. So even if it was only a 5 minute period, I believe it will show up in the archive.
Hopefully a dnsstuff member will chime in to clarify.
Vito





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The way those whois history services work, is that they always save the whois record when someone searches the domain on there site, they are not allowed to automatically query the domains.
So if you moved the domain to your client, made five minutes afterward, before the client changed the domain to private, a whois query on one of the whois history sites, then they would have saved the unprotected whois information.
Never use one of those sites with your own domains when you don't want that they store information about you.





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Thanks for the responses. I did the whois directly at whois.godaddy.com when I saw his personal details listed. So it should be ok.