Originally Posted by
WhiskeyDelta
Is it true you are operating this site out of Panama and when MyIDTravel found out they pulled the plug?
No.
Originally Posted by
awax
Where is your domain registered?
The DNS does show Panama. Explanation below. The actual site resides on a server in NYC. Domain registry has nothing to do with the physical location of the hosting server.
Originally Posted by
Baradium
Your domain registrar that you used to register the domain, however, does use Panama as their contact address. That is probably where Panama comes into play.
You got it. When you buy a domain name from any of the main providers (Namecheap in our case) they typically throw in a free year of WhoisGuard - a company with a headquarters in Panama. They put their information in the DNS registry on websites’ behalf as part of their service, hence the Panama address.
It’s free for the first year and keeps a personal address off the internet, so being cheap pilots we said why not? Nothing more to the Panama thing than that.
If you want to do a little more digging, you can ping our domain name which will return an IP address that corresponds to a Digital Ocean server in NYC. I guess you could say that’s where we are “operating the site” from... Nothing nefarious going on, although I understand the initial concern when someone pulls up the DNS and sees Panama.
No data is ever sent to, or stored, outside of our secure VPS in NYC. There was, and is, no security issue. The Jumpseat Tool doesn’t do anything that can’t be accomplished manually, directly with myIDtravel.
Originally Posted by
Baradium
That could just mean that they didn't like a third party having any interaction. It doesn't necessarily mean there was anything inherently wrong with the site other than not being controlled directly.
^^^Pretty much. As I’ve mentioned, I will get an email out as soon as we have time to put together an accurate message.