{"id":2293,"date":"2021-06-29T09:38:45","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T06:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/?p=2293"},"modified":"2022-05-23T19:04:04","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T16:04:04","slug":"whois-redaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/whois-redaction\/","title":{"rendered":"WHOIS redaction"},"content":{"rendered":"

The personal and contact information you provide during the<\/span> domain’s registration process<\/b><\/a> is extremely important. It can be critical during domain ownership disputes, and it’s impossible to <\/span>transfer a domain<\/b> from one registrar to another without it. That’s why it’s so crucial to keep it up to date at any time.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the past, this information would be made available through <\/span>publicly accessible whois search engines<\/b> like <\/span>https:\/\/whois.domaintools.com\/<\/b><\/a>. These search engines could reveal a domain owner’s name, email and postal addresses, and telephone number, as well as the domain’s registration and expiration dates, the registrar-lock status, and the nameservers.<\/span><\/p>\n

When the EU’s<\/span> General Data Protection Regulation <\/b>(GDPR) came into effect, <\/span>ICANN<\/b>, the international organization governing the registration of domains, was forced to redesign the entire <\/span>whois system <\/b>and its data handling procedures.<\/span><\/p>\n

Right now, by default, <\/span>domains registered by EU citizens won’t reveal the registrant’s personal and contact details. <\/b>The exact redaction mechanisms differ from TLD to TLD, but the upshot is that the sensitive information is not shared with the whois search engines and is <\/span>stored and managed by the registrar.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Regulations state that <\/span>registrars need to provide a way for the domain owner to be contacted <\/b>without revealing their email address.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bear in mind that <\/span>Whois redaction is not synonymous with ID protection.<\/b> ID protection is a paid service that protects the registrant’s privacy by replacing their contact details in the whois output with fake ones.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The personal and contact information you provide during the domain’s registration process is extremely important. It can be critical during domain ownership disputes, and it’s impossible to transfer a domain from one registrar to another without it. That’s why it’s so crucial to keep it up to date at any time. In the past, this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dns"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2293"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4652,"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2293\/revisions\/4652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}