Very Poor and Very Intrusive

Domaintools.com publish private data from the WHOIS register or sell it - which is in breach of the UK Nominet terms of use - and cache historical records including peoples names and addresses and sell those on in "reports" to make a quick profit. They operate purely due to a lag in the law to catch up with modern technology regarding privacy. Not in the spirit of the Internet.

Copyright Problems

Websites that our hosted outside the USA do have their own copyright laws. Which Domaintools believe that they copy website content. They stated that they can do this because of Kelly v. Arriba Soft case when a judge stated that a site can use other sites content if it is fair use. However this will mean that these are only for USA websites and not other websites that our outside the states. When told to remove the copied data, domaintools.com said that if a webmaster or owner wants to get in touch with them to remove the data, they require a lawer to contact their legal department. But why should webmasters and owners waste time and money to get domaintools.com to remove the copied data. I suguest that they learn the different laws of the world and honor the requests of webmasters and owners of sites that they copied data off without permission. Techesport.co.uk 15:25, 19 February 2008 (PST)

Privacy, Copyright and Trademark Issues

By publishing and even selling the whois information as well as content from individual websites related to that whois information, Domaintools.com is considered to be an illegally operating company in most European countries; since EU laws simply do not allow to do so. (Dec 26, 2009, 13:04 pm)