Do registrars have access to Whois database of other registrars

[Andrei P.]

I'm not very aware about technical details but in few words.

Can one ICANN registrar (Google for example) know real owner of domains (here comes list of 100 domains) if privacy protection is on.

 

[Dave_Z]

No.

 

[Smith]

Regsitrars get access to the registry API's including a whois API, so they can do look ups whenever they want.

Beyond what is available in the public whois they don't have access to the information.

 

[cache]

NO.
When I tried to transfer my own domains with privacy protection, it could not transfer. That proved they do not know.