SEO Philippines

Cshel SEO dug a little deeper into the issue whether Google as a registrar can see past private whois registrations. He concludes that Google can only see private domain registrations IF they handle or manage the domains:

I im’d a friend of mine who used to work for Moniker and asked if he had access to, or if anyone from the registrar side had access to, the WHOIS info on private domain registrations. His reply was that “only registrars have access to the private domain registration information, but only for those domains they hold/manage”.

So, Google, although a registrar, does not have access to anyone’s private WHOIS info because Google doesn’t manage or handle registrations for the general public.

This could also mean that Registrars are not obliged to share these private registration information. Still, that doesn’t stop Google from sniffing webmaster identities using other methods.