On: Amazon's customer service backdoor

[nostalgiac]

I'm not sure how true this is.

I registered a new domain with Namecheap just last Thursday and it had whoisguard automatically turned on.

[Buge → nostalgiac]

I think it is enabled automatically for free for the first year, but does not automatically renew, because it is not free after the first year.

[longnguyen → nostalgiac]

Same here. I've registered a bunch of domain names with Namecheap over the last year and they all had whoisguard turned on.