I'm quite the newbie when it comes to operating websites. I created a few websites for my adult stories. I've noticed that the whois info for one of the sites is now available in google. So stupid of me not to realize this happens. My brother has agreed to let me use his name and address so I've entered these for each domain into my Godaddy account. My question: if I delete my hosting account (and, thus, my blogs and stories) will this encourage google to index more of my whois data? Despite my brother's agreement to let me use his details, I would also prefer his details not to appear in google. What concerns me is if I delete the sites, delete the hosting, I might rock the apple cart and encourage google to index more of the whois data. As a second, related, question: can anyone suggest how to remove my details from these sites that publish our whois info? Thank you in advance!
It's not Google to blame, so even deleting the domain (so it's no longer registered) won't help as these are details are on websites controlled by other people than Google. Most likely other search engines will have indexed those pages, too. You can enable privacy for your domains to stop it happening again, but these whois scraper sites will still show your details. You can always try contacting them to ask for removal once you've enabled privacy, but it's not a guaranteed successful way.
As mentioned above, if you want privacy just get domain privacy for the domain. You do realize whois details are in the public domain, whether they're indexed or not? I also don't think it's cool using your bro's details to cover your own back.
Thank you for the replies! Question. So, if I delete my sites and hosting, will this encourage the scraping sites to look for the whois info? If so, I'd best not delete them. Or does it not matter if I delete the sites?
Google does not want to "expose" you or whatever. They just crawl and index. Deleting everything will not encourage them to look for more.