Since auDA’s inception of December 2000, some 26 years ago, the public WHOIS has shown domain name ownership such as Registrant Contact Name, Organisation and Email address.
A number of Domain Investors reached out to us today to ask why the WHOIS on Expiring Domain Names now HIDES the Registrant Ownership and Contact information.
For example, Discipline.com.au is dropping tomorrow, but for the first time in history, THIS is what the public WHOIS records show:
“Domain Pending Purge”
auDA now HIDE a domain name’s Registrant information the second it appears on the Expired Domains list over at Identity Digital.
auDA (.au Domain Administration) and Identity Digital don’t appear to have warned the public or issued any kind of press release. They’ve simply just turned OFF any Registrant information related to a domain name at the moment it is placed on the Expired Domain Name list.
There are many questions to be asked, and possibly many catastrophic after-effects for businesses, companies and corporations going forward, so feel free to start asking them in the comments section below.
auDA Please Explain why.
They may have valid reasons?
Can.au Registrants now request Whois Privacy like in most other domain extensions?
I see GoDaddy doing this already for their ,au name whois search results. No Registrant info at all. Maybe this is to help increase contact and sales enquiries only via the paid Godaddy Broker Service….
.NZ, .Com, .UK and 1000 other domain extensions have had whois privacy for years.