Which Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) status-values provide sufficient protection against domain hijacking?

The Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) as described in RFC 5730, can possibly be protective against domain hijacked. The protocol consists of the 17 following status-values as described in RFC 5731:

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How much can I trust domain registrars to honor Whois identity protection services?

Domain name registrars offer whois ID protection services. I do plan to use such a service.

But as I’m a relative newbie to the domain name registration world, I don’t know whether I can trust it.

I’m trying to decide w… Continue reading How much can I trust domain registrars to honor Whois identity protection services?