Owner information has stopped appearing on .io, .ac and .sh domain name whois and people have started complaining about this change.
It all started in April 2017 when Afilias won the contract to run the backend registry services for a number of country code domain extensions: .io, .ac and .sh. The new contract meant that all the technical aspects of the 3 ccTLDs would be handled by Afilias. That includes the domain name whois system, how and when the domain names expire and drop, etc.
ccTLDs don’t all operate in the same way as gTLD extensions like .com or .org do. In fact very few do. That is because each ccTLD is usually opearated by its respective country and all have setup different rules.
Read MoreAll you can see is the registrar information, the registration and expiry dates, domain status and the nameservers. It provides no information about the domain name owner/registrant. And this is of course not similar to the .info whois. .Info whois has complete registrant info while in the ccTLDs owner info will just not show up...
