domains Domain Privacy Protection is now FREE at GoDaddy.

[Windoms]

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.

 

[pb]

To turn it off you have to click on a domain first, from individual domain settings page you can turn it off under privacy settings.
The control panel privacy links are still linking to the old paid pivacy so you cant bulk turn it off yet you have to select a domain first.

Thanks, found it after scrolling down, previously I was also on the domain's page but I used the first button, just under the domain name and date.

 

[tonyk2000]

As for company name being shown - I think it is a GDPR thing (EU), but GoDaddy decided to apply it globally. AFAIK (maybe I'm mistaken) GDPR is intended to protect _personal_ data in the first place, not corporate data. So there is no obligation to hide company name. As for other data - we can only guess, maybe GD saw domains where admin contact John Doe used his personal(home) address everywhere... so all these details are hidden just in case.

@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. Can you explain please, what exact new services (if any) GD offers at this time in mentioned case? The only changes I found are:

- opportunity to opt-in to show full whois

- opportunity to purchase 2 types of extra privacy protection

?

And, 2nd question:

Earlier, at least at some point of time, GD (paid) whois privacy had one side effect. Registrant was required to remove privacy in order to transfer the domain away. OK, not a big deal. WIth one exception: IF the domain is under privacy AND expired, THEN it was simply impossible to remove privacy. Accordingly, there was no practical way to transfer away privacy protected expired domain.

Any changes in this behavior?

Thank you Joe for responding in this thread!

 

[Samer]

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

Samer

 

[Windoms]

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.

 

[DomainBoxio]

Only about 36-48 months behind competitors

 

[Mytz.com]

According to the latest ICAAN regulations,
Now WHOS for all domain names are all hidden, right?

 

[Windoms]

Interestingly, Uni already had a similar system in place (default, basic privacy showing state, country, and organization).
Could be some regulation thing.