Make sure that you tell your registrar that you want to be anonymous.

Edit: wow I missed the phone number censor. I guess that proves my point even farther.

  • DaGeek247@fedia.io
    27·
    2 months ago

    Depending on your domain, the registrar might not be legally allowed to hide this information. Make sure to know the rules of the TLD you use, as well as the registrar.

    • Object@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      11·
      2 months ago

      Or the opposite: They’re hidden by default! You cannot look up .ch and .li domains unless you submit a manual request.

      • phase@lemmy.8th.worldEnglish
        4·
        2 months ago

        It depends. For example, whois wasn’t GDPR compliant (this EU law about sharing of data). Now, most of them are hidden, just in case.

  • Alk@lemmy.worldEnglish
    211·
    2 months ago

    I recommend https://njal.la/ for a privacy respecting domain name provider. It was established by The Pirate Bay founder Peter Sunde.

    • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
      83·
      2 months ago

      Seems pointless if everything is redacted.

      Whois is extremely helpful for non-malicious purposes just like phone books used to be.

      • nickEnglish
        12·
        2 months ago

        Great for spammers too. I’ll stick with my privacy.

      • Creat@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        Usually the information has to be public is the registering entity is a company, and can be private (and I think it’s by default) if it’s by an individual. It shouldn’t be possible to have private company registrations. This of course depends on the TLD, but might have implications on some jurisdictions independent of that (like when using a site of any TLD inside the EU).

      • ajikeshi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        yeah… not having an readily available admin-c will just lead to the domain and ip getting bad reputation in case there is the slightest issue

  • nickEnglish
    4·
    2 months ago

    Bout ten years ago I pissed off some GNAA idiot trolls on twitter, so they did a whois on my domain. I never updated it from my mom’s address so over the course of a week my mom got three cases of qurans and several large pizza orders (10+ pizzas each time), all of which she declined to accept.

    Lucky she didn’t get swatted, though this was before they became such a big thing.

    You bet your ass all my domains now have privacy settings enabled.