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#3034358 10-Feb-2023 10:13

ANglEAUT:

alasta:... as these people are probably too amateur to develop a tool ...

www.whatdoesmylandlordown.org also doesn't resolve

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#3034364 10-Feb-2023 10:20

ANglEAUT:

www.whatdoesmylandlordown.org also doesn't resolve

That is totally fine... In all the sites I manage I often have a redirect back or sometimes nothing at all to the root domain.

It is not essential to have www, it's a relic of the 90's where there were often multiple services (like FTP, Email etc) and I personally don't ever type it when going directly to a domain.

If there is a redirect to www then so be it.

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#3034366 10-Feb-2023 10:25

michaelmurfy:

... It is not essential to have www, it's a relic of the 90's ...

I agree it's not essential, but we have conditioned people to type www.... for 20+ years when browsing to a website. There also is no redirect. Maybe I should have said it like that.

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#3034368 10-Feb-2023 10:27

This is basically doxing

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#3034435 10-Feb-2023 11:13

gehenna:

This is basically doxing

It is not. All information is publicly accessible via LINZ, Council and other publicly published information.

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#3034439 10-Feb-2023 11:17

This is great for finding the landlord of your anti-social rental neighbours

Edit: just tried about 5 different properties that im aware of, all 100% accurate for me

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#3034442 10-Feb-2023 11:20

Well it's inaccurate for me. Lists properties that I don't own and doesn't list properties that I own.

Also handles unit title poorly.

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#3034443 10-Feb-2023 11:21

udmada:
gehenna:

This is basically doxing

It is not. All information is publicly accessible via LINZ, Council and other publicly published information.

The website does not provide correct information. It suggests that between the wife and I, we own multiple properties. That's absolute rubbish. We own the one we live in, and only the one we live in. The website is the issue, not the fact that information is publicly available, it's the way the information is portrayed.

If one of the other properties, owned by someone with the same name as my wife, has the tenants trying to chase up the property owner, we could have people banging on our door!

People often mistake me for an adult because of my age.

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#3034446 10-Feb-2023 11:26

udmada:

It is not. All information is publicly accessible via LINZ, Council and other publicly published information.

...available from outlets with strict controls on what you and can't do with that data if you want to access it.

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#3034455 10-Feb-2023 11:37

Has anyone reached out to LINZ about this ?

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#3034457 10-Feb-2023 11:40

Threw my name in, apparently I own over 70 properties I didn't know about! I look forward to selling them all off and retiring early :-)

Dangerous and irresponsible comes to mind.

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#3034462 10-Feb-2023 11:46

Info is wrong for me as well. I own 1 and a half properties, none of which are rented out. But according to them I own 7 Properties in 5 different cities.

I have a fairly common name and I know of at least 3 other people who have the same first, middle and last name as me and are also about the same age.

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#3034463 10-Feb-2023 11:47

scuwp:

Threw my name in, apparently I own over 70 properties I didn't know about! I look forward to selling them all off and retiring early :-)

Dangerous and irresponsible comes to mind.

I just chucked one of the neighbours' addresses in and apparently they're redacted due to being a "single property owner" yet despite that have ~100 properties listed.