Phone number in Bellevue, WA, USA. It seems they are struggling with this newfangled transparency thing.
The Mineral.com registrar is joker.com - a German company:
Registry Registrant ID:
Registrant Name: provided for EIS Europaeische Internet Service AG
Registrant Organization: CSL Computer Service Langenbach GmbH
Registrant Street: Hansaallee 191-193
Registrant City: Duesseldorf
Registrant Postal Code: 40549
Registrant Country: DE
Registrant Phone: +49.211867670
Registrant Email: Email Masking
[email protected]Registry Admin ID:
That phone number is associated to web hosting companies. It's found in:
- 2008 RipOffReport:
http://www.ripoffreport.com/r/web-host-for-seo/bellevue-washington-98007/web-host-for-seo-webhostforseocom-by-todd-spears-total-junk-massive-amounts-of-downtim-391035- Unknown date? "BestWebDesigner.com" profile at same address:
http://www.ibegin.com/directory/us/washington/bellevue/bestwebsitesdesignercom-pmb-368-14150-ne-20th-st-f1-co-bestwebsitesdesignercom/So, I'm thinking the phone number if probably from the original Mineral.com owner who may have been a squatter just trying to sell it since about 2005.
BUT, it is interesting that when they moved it in March, it went under a US based domain privacy provider with a BBB rating of D- (you can practically hand the BBB $100 and get an A+ no matter how many complaints you have) that uses that phone number...
Registrant Organization: WHOIS PRIVACY PROTECTION SERVICE, INC.
Registrant Street: C/O MINERAL.COM
Registrant City: KIRKLAND
Registrant Postal Code: 98083
Registrant Country: US
Registrant Phone: +1.4252740657
Registrant Email: @whoisprivacyprotect.com
You can read their BBB complaints here:
http://www.bbb.org/alaskaoregonwesternwashington/business-reviews/internet-web-hosting/whois-privacy-protection-service-inc-in-kirkland-wa-22419922/complaints#breakdownAND... I didn't search for crap.. this is all the first stuff that comes up on Google... so these people are pond scum.