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Just a reminder of how powerful the whois command is and what it can say (lemmy.sdf.org)
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Make sure that you tell your registrar that you want to be anonymous.

Edit: wow I missed the phone number censor. I guess that proves my point even farther.

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[–] phase@lemmy.8th.world 4 points 1 month ago

It depends. For example, whois wasn't GDPR compliant (this EU law about sharing of data). Now, most of them are hidden, just in case.