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Old 13 Jun 2018, 06:09 AM   #5
Tsunami
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Join Date: Jun 2004
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Maybe this is my anxiety disorder playing tricks on me again, but... if the registrant in the WHOIS database is the actual owner of the domain, then doesn't WHOIS Privacy lead to the registrar owning the domain (by masking the customer's data and replacing it with own data) instead of the registrant/customer owning the domain?

For this reason I never chose to activate private WHOIS.

I did see, last time I checked my own domains in who.is, whois.sc and whois.com, that most of the information was no longer visable. It seemed like a temporary outage of the WHOIS database ; maybe it's just the registrar no longer displaying the registrant's data in the WHOIS due to new privacy laws?
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