My answer is no, probably not. Certainly, people need to change their information; sometimes they change registrars – that’s completely normal. That’s completely expected behavior.
The only times that we really try to keep an eye on that is if we think someone as a spammer might be trying to buy someone’s domain only for the links, or buying an expired domain or something like that.
But, there’s plenty of times when you’re switching to a new address, you’re switching to a new phone number, where it makes complete sense that all that information does need a change.
We try to be very smart about it, and you should never see any differences if you’re just a regular person. The hope is, if you’re trying to do anything sneaky or spammy, then we might pay a little bit of a closer eye. But in a typical case, I really wouldn’t worry about that.
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