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It happened (btw).
Privacy is free at GoDaddy.
You can turn that off and display your information in case you want direct inquiries.

You can still pay 10$ for something called "Full Domain Privacy & Protection, Protects your domain from hijacking and honest mistakes like accidental transfer or an expired credit card, as well as prevents spam with a private email address.".

Iit's BS, absolutely unnecessary.
Privacy is free.

Now on to GoDaddy branded landers.

Hello,

You know as GoDaddy's CEO will be at Namescon.
If we are really serious about it.
We could get @Bob Hawkes to deliver a message to Mr Bhutani.
Like the official namepros community (domainers) representative.
Since it's a domainer's conference.
And namepros being the main spot for domainers.
We could easily have someone deliver a message on behalf of domainers.
Someone trustworthy, immune to external influences, and bribery.

Our message:
we want GoDaddy landers and free Whois privacy with discount club lol.
I'm dead serious.

Slow payment, apparently good for fraud protection, crypto payment, let's try to not mention those non-essential points. It's a large corporation.

Keep it simple. Like 3 points.

100% GoDaddy branded landers.
Free Whois privacy with discount club.
Something else.

I suspect he will have 2 bodyguards.
@Joe Styler @Paul Nicks

2 bodyguards which could be our door to Mr Bhutani, if the namepros community is dead serious about conveying its official message through @Bob Hawkes

As a new CEO he must be curious or willing to learn about domain investing or something.
Don't think he's ever returning to Namescon after that lol.
Sometimes stars align. I believe this is our chance.
 
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California also passed a big privacy law CCPA and there are other jurisdictions Globally in various states of entertaining/passing legislation. That is about as far as my knowledge goes. I am not on the compliance side of the house.

This page lays out the different options best, https://www.godaddy.com/domains/full-domain-privacy-and-protection with a graph.

This explains the rest of what you asked in more depth https://www.godaddy.com/help/privacy-faq-27923?

Transferring out will still involve removing paid privacy options. We are looking into ways to reduce friction as we speak. There are various considerations and we are trying to balance them all and make it as smooth for the customers as possible.

I thought you did it, best way possible.

$9.99 privacy is egregious.

Best move, done best way. Sad, California was what forced your hand. Looks to be a win-win. Less options for bloated add-ons. Remove $9.99 privacy took long..? Better late than never

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As for company name being shown - I think it is a GDPR thing (EU)

Actually it's not fully GDPR-compliant. I have a 1-person-company and so my first and last name are part of the company name. Under GDPR those are protected (even when I'm running a company), so showing Organization in plain whois might be a problem. Personally I don't mind, I'm just saying in general.
 
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Actually it's not fully GDPR-compliant. I have a 1-person-company and so my first and last name are part of the company name. Under GDPR those are protected (even when I'm running a company), so showing Organization in plain whois might be a problem. Personally I don't mind, I'm just saying in general.

In the meantime if you wish receive whois inquiries, show all your info along with organization name.
If you wish to go under the radar, enable privacy protection and leave organization name field empty. People will only see country and state.
 
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@Joe Styler - I checked current default whois output for my domains (non-EU and no whois privacy purchased) and saw no recent changes at all. No name, no phone, no street/city and no email - it is working this way for a long time.

It wasnt working this way. If you didnt have privacy purchased it would show all your info.
Here is the thing you might have missed for a long time.
For domains registered at godaddy, if you did a whois search on dynadot, namecheap, or any other registrar, it wouldnt show any info. You had to make the whois search on godaddy's website for domains registered at godaddy to reveal their whois information.
Its no longer showing anything, unless you enable it.
 
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According to the latest ICAAN regulations,
Now WHOS for all domain names are all hidden, right?
 
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Only about 36-48 months behind competitors
 
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Interestingly, Uni already had a similar system in place (default, basic privacy showing state, country, and organization).
Could be some regulation thing.


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