WHOIS Privacy Services
Discussions center on domain registrars offering free WHOIS privacy protections like Namecheap's WhoisGuard, debates over their legality under ICANN rules, GDPR impacts on public WHOIS data, and recommendations for providers avoiding personal info exposure.
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This seems to rely on whois records. For those opting to avoid public whois info, this doesn't seem to have much value.
WHOIS privacy isn't a registry-level service. It's a registrar-level service.
You need an anonymized WHOIS service. Namecheap offers free anonymized WHOIS by default on their domains ... its called "WhoisGuard Protection". Its a must have these days.
What do you mean? Like an insider at ICANN who can get the owner's actual contact information instead of a whois guard?
WHOIS guard privacy has been free on Namecheap for awhile
They are using cloudflare, so that would be tough even if it was not illegal. Whois data is protected, so doubt they would respond if contacted.
I'm a Gandi user and but I hate that they insist on leaving my email address in the WHOIS data.
How is Namecheap e.g. providing an option to hide your whois information somehow shady?
It's probably due to the GDPR. My understanding is that a lot of registrars are removing all personal information from WHOIS due to GDPR concerns.
Free whois privacy. Hopefully this pushes some other dns providers to do the same.