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29 May 2018, 09:16 PM | #1 |
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Namecheap - WhoisGuard Privacy Protection is now free forever!
https://www.namecheap.com/security/whoisguard.aspx
When you register an eligible new domain name or transfer an existing eligible domain to Namecheap, you'll receive WhoisGuard privacy protection absolutely FREE for as long as you keep your domain with Namecheap. Presumably that means it doesn't apply to existing domains in an account. |
29 May 2018, 10:13 PM | #2 | |
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It does apply to existing registrations.
The side panel at https://www.namecheap.com/security/whoisguard.aspx says Quote:
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30 May 2018, 12:07 AM | #3 |
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Name Silo has been offering it for years...
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30 May 2018, 08:46 AM | #4 |
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I think most will be offering free WHOIS due to GDPR coming in. Reduces the chances of someone's personal information being revealed.
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13 Jun 2018, 05:09 AM | #5 |
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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? |
13 Jun 2018, 05:40 AM | #6 | |
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Not really a fan of GoDaddy, but I think their explanation is pretty good:
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