question Whois seems to be dead. Why?

[Emil K.]

It’s bee a while, unfortunately, I can no longer use the Whois opportunity, so, I cannot access the data of the owners of particular domains, or their email addresses.

Why is this happening?

I note that I live in Europe, if that means anything in this case...

 

[Steven McEvoy]

What website are you talking about?

 

[cipcip]

It’s bee a while, unfortunately, I can no longer use the Whois opportunity, so, I cannot access the data of the owners of particular domains, or their email addresses.

Why is this happening?

I note that I live in Europe, if that means anything in this case...

Because of data privacy. When you register a domain, you have the possibility to hide your contact info.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation

 

[Emil K.]

Because of data privacy. When you register a domain, you have the possibility to hide your contact info.

That's OK, but why don't they let us, the domain owners, decide the level of protection ourselves (which is, of course, possible - when purchasing, registering, or later), rather than letting them (ICAAN... or who else) determine what will be protected and what will not?

I, for example, want all my domains, with supporting informations, to be visible to everyone. Why do they protect my privacy if I don't want that? That is the point of my question.

 

[cipcip]

That's OK, but why don't they let us, the domain owners, decide the level of protection ourselves (which is, of course, possible - when purchasing, registering, or later), rather than letting them (ICAAN... or who else) determine what will be protected and what will not?

I, for example, want all my domains, with supporting informations, to be visible to everyone. Why do they protect my privacy if I don't want that? That is the point of my question.

Depends where you register the domains, I register domains at Dynadot and they ask me everytime when i buy if i want data privacy to be enabled or not. I do not know if I can undo this later from the control panel, never was interested in it.

EDIT: Seems like you can change it afterwards at Dynadot. Just click on your domain and you have data privacy where it can be full, partial or none

 

[Emil K.]

Depends where you register the domains, I register domains at Dynadot and they ask me everytime when i buy if i want data privacy to be enabled or not. I do not know if I can undo this later from the control panel, never was interested in it.

I register domains, mostly, at GoDaddy and they ask me every time when i buy domain if i want data privacy to be enabled or not, too.

But when I choose not to want privacy protection, after registering, I see in 'Whois' that there is no information about me as the owner of that domain.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Use registrar's local WHOIS: https://godaddy.com/whois

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

https://gdpr.eu/what-is-gdpr/
It affects all EU/EEA residents (natural persons) since May'25 of 2018.
Regardless of where their personal data is processed - it must be protected.

If you don't want any protection - act as company.

 

[Mister Funsky]

Epik allows you to turn your contact on or off.

 

[Emil K.]

Epik allows you to turn your contact on or off.

Please be a little more specific ...

 

[Mister Funsky]

Please be a little more specific ...

It is similar to what cipcip says below...in your control panel at epik you can make your information private or not at any time. It is just a matter of checking or unchecking a box in your domain control.

Depends where you register the domains, I register domains at Dynadot and they ask me everytime when i buy if i want data privacy to be enabled or not. I do not know if I can undo this later from the control panel, never was interested in it.

EDIT: Seems like you can change it afterwards at Dynadot. Just click on your domain and you have data privacy where it can be full, partial or none

 

[frank-germany]

That's OK, but why don't they let us, the domain owners, decide the level of protection ourselves (which is, of course, possible - when purchasing, registering, or later), rather than letting them (ICAAN... or who else) determine what will be protected and what will not?

I, for example, want all my domains, with supporting informations, to be visible to everyone. Why do they protect my privacy if I don't want that? That is the point of my question.

use a registrar that has an option the show/hide whois
per domain

like hexonet

 

[Weber]

The damage is done regardless of whether your registrar will disclose the info. My experience shows that queries now (per Godaddy furnished data) are a small fraction of those before implementation of GDPR, even if contact info is disclosed.

Even more unfortunate, this policy change came at a time of an ongoing slow down of activity in the overall domain market which had already contributed to a reduced interest in whois queries.

 

[bashariqbal]

Its GoDaddy's problem. When you register names with them then you can only access incomplete whois data from any 3rd party whois so you have to use specifically GoDaddy's whois to find complete whois data.