When making domain inquiries through a platform that can be semi-anonymous, the other party can receive more information than you originally planned to give away.<\/p>\n
For example, even if you gave out a partial or even false name, it’s linked to an email address.<\/p>\n
It’s quite possible that by using a legit email address, as opposed to a throwaway email, you’re attempting to establish future communications, past the domain seller’s initial response. After all, if you want to buy a domain, you’d better be who you claim to be.<\/p>\n
Regardless of your motives, when that email has an autoresponder enabled, you’re undoing the level of privacy you were after.<\/p>\n
It all depends on the info revealed in that autoresponder email, of course; a recent inquiry I received via the Uniregistry Market, gave that person’s corporate position, department and phone number, none of which arrived with the initial inquiry.<\/p>\n
It basically did all the research for me, without the need to try to find which “John Smith” they are.<\/p>\n