Whois Privacy

Enabling Whois Privacy will protect your personal information from hackers, spammers, or other malicious individuals online. For .ca domain names, your Whois details are removed from public view, while for gTLDs such as .com, .net or .org, your domain registration information is masked with generic information. You still retain full ownership and control of your domain name with Whois privacy activated.

  1. Log in to your profile on our site.
  2. Click Account Management > My Domains from the menu tabs.
  3. Click the domain name you wish to manage directly, or click the gear icon beside it.
  4. Click on the Whois Privacy link under the Quick Actions section of the My Domains page.
  5. To enable Whois privacy, select the On radio button. To disable Whois prviacy, select the Off radio button.
  6. Click Update.

.ca Domain Names:

  1. Individual Registrants can turn privacy on/off anytime in the Domain Management area.
  2. For Non-Individual Registrants, the Whois privacy is OFF by default and cannot be activated except in exceptional circumstances. Registrants wishing to request privacy protection should visit CIRA's website and refer to the Request for Privacy Protection online form and instructions.

Notes:

When you register or transfer a gtld domain, you can select to enable or disable Whois Privacy. Updates submitted to change the status of the Whois Privacy for your domain may not take effect immediately.

We also provide a bulk interface for Whois privacy updates. On the My Domains page, click the check box beside any domain that you wish to enable privacy for and select Enable Whois Privacy under the List Actions section. All domains that have had their Whois privacy enabled will appear with a green check on the next screen, while those without Whois privacy will appear with a red X.

You may notice that the Whois privacy column on the My Domains list has a black dash (-) for some of the .CA entries. This is a side effect of the fact that CIRA provides the Whois privacy for .CA domain names directly. Once you manage the Whois privacy by activating it or deactivating it, our system will detect its status and set the appropriate indicator in the Whois privacy column.

 

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