WHOIS Coming to Get You?
If you own an Internet domain, you’ve got a target painted on your back and cyber criminals are coming for you. The target is your Whois record, and the criminals are a growing network of spammers, scammers, phishers, and vishers. The Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) requires domain registrars collect every registrant's contact information (name, email address, postal address, phone number) and publish it using a global online service called Whois.