Domain privacy

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Domain privacy (often called Whois privacy) is a service offered by a number of domain name registrars. A user buys privacy from the company, who in turn replaces the user's information in the WHOIS and Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP) with the information of a forwarding service (for email and sometimes postal mail, it is done by a proxy server). Other sources say that domain privacy for companies is a nonsense, and may be seen a whois abuse in some cases. Only humans have privacy, companies don't. Corporations are economic players and the company name, address and registration number must remain public data in all cases. Hiding these prevents the identification of spammer domains, owners of profiling or harassing AI bots, etc. Therefore it hurts the privacy and legitim interest of humans that laws, like the GDPR in EU, are supposed to protect.

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