Whois is great for social engineering attackers. You get a name, email, address, and the first service to attack.<p>Meanwhile, the ICANN is working around the clock to make it illegal for us to protect our personal information, and whois protection is becoming an increasingly niche service for registrars.<p>For example, gandi.net (and thus Amazon) doesn&#x27;t hide your name when you have it turned on. By the time you find this out, it might occur to you to just type in a different name, but now you&#x27;re violating ICANN policy. And it&#x27;s already been scraped by any of those whois history websites.