Be Careful About Buying these Specific/Special TLD (top level domain) domain names!

This episode discusses how the majority of TLD (top-level domain names) aren’t valid. You will have some difficulty trying to secure your websites with an SSL certificate, especially with the free Let’s Encrypt Certificate. I have been dealing with a few TLDs, where the WHOIS’s privacy is being active on my domain name when I have specifically requested for the WHOIS privacy to be turned off. When requesting to turn it off, the domain registrar usually will state that it is off on their end, but the main company controlling any domain ownership online lookup are blocking who is the actual owner for the domain name. For example, if you have bought the “.news” TLD, the company “Donuts, Inc” https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/news.html has its own “Whois lookup” and their company is illegally restricting information without the consent of the domain name owner. I have filed a complaint with ICANN (https://www.icann.org/compliance/complaint), but this process is a waste of time. The registrar that you may be dealing with probably does not have a valid contract with ICANN, like other registrars, who do not change companies or their names, which do not match the actual contract agreement with ICANN. Go Daddy is probably one of the few valid domain registrars available in these United States of America, which shows we somehow have to do better and try to be supportive of companies and small businesses probably struggling against the other monopoly of companies because they can price everything so low, which is tempting, but when there is an issue, you might have problems. Do your research ahead of time, which is a lot to search through the endless list of alleged valid domain registrars. It is not even worth wasting your money on anything, other than the “.com or maybe.net” Other TLDs that I have had issues with are “.info and.org” controlled by “https://afilias.info/“ basically worthless again, sorry! Based on https://icannwiki.org/.info, .info, “ICANN approved Afilias's application to be the registry operator of .info on May 11, 2001.[8] The United States Department of Commerce (DOC) entered .info into the Domain Name System (DNS) root zone on June 27.” For the organization behind “.org” it's the “Public Interest Registry (PIR) and Afilias” and they have their own “whois” too at If you believe you have a legitimate interest in accessing non-public WHOIS data please submit your request to WHOISrequest@pir.org. ICANN is going to help them, not anyone else. No one should have to go back and forth with these “Registries” who have used public funds to pay for this private membership, that controls the whole worldwide web for basically free.