<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><br></div><div>We operate <a href="http://easyWhois.com">easyWhois.com</a> and we have a publicly stated “no frontrunning” guarantee there. </div><div><br></div><div>This came up in the past when ICANN issued an advisory about it and we went on record with it, </div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.easywhois.com/?mode=privacy">https://www.easywhois.com/?mode=privacy</a><br><br><div id="AppleMailSignature" dir="ltr">Domaintools is also safe from front running but they will as a matter of record archive every result queried for their database. That’s their business model.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature" dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Mar 5, 2019, at 8:50 PM, Doug Barton <<a href="mailto:dougb@dougbarton.email">dougb@dougbarton.email</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span>Folks,</span><br><span></span><br><span>I know that there are a lot of public whois sites, and purveyors of domain name tools, but I also know that a non-trivial number of them are scams, to the extent that some of them will even register good names out from under you if you use them.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Is there a safe place for me to send folks to look up domain names? I'm particularly interested in a way for folks to determine if a name is registered, or available.</span><br><span></span><br><span><a href="https://whois.domaintools.com">https://whois.domaintools.com</a> looks promising, but I don't have direct experience with <a href="http://domaintools.com">domaintools.com</a>.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Doug</span><br><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>dns-operations mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:dns-operations@lists.dns-oarc.net">dns-operations@lists.dns-oarc.net</a></span><br><span><a href="https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-operations">https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-operations</a></span><br><span>dns-operations mailing list</span><br><span><a href="https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-operations">https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-operations</a></span><br></div></blockquote></div></body></html>