redaction

Hiding personal data, such as an owner's name, phone or address, from public registration data (glossary)registration data The information kept about a domain and its owner. Full definition of registration data lookups. Since the GDPR (glossary)GDPR General Data Protection Regulation The European Union data protection law that led to hiding personal data in WHOIS. Full definition of GDPR, many gTLD (glossary)gTLD generic top-level domain A top-level domain not tied to a country, run under ICANN contracts. Full definition of gTLD registrars (glossary)registrar A company that registers domain names for customers with the registry. Full definition of registrar redact this data by default. A note may say the data is redacted, and access can be requested.