privacy whois
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Hello, I’d like to know, if you can help me with one doubt…
When we subscribe domain privacy option ‘Knock Knock WHOIS Not There, LLC’, if the domain expires, will our personal data will be exposed on ‘whois’ site in any form? Is there a history of past domain owners that will be available without the privacy protection?
I ask this because I assume the privacy protection will only work during the domain existence…
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Hi there,
I think since the domain privacy subscription is linked to the domain registration, it will protect your privacy as long a the domain is yours and paid for. The minute you stop paying for the domain or it expires it ceases to be yours, your information will be removed from that domain ownership so there won’t be any to leak.
It’s good to check what the license agreement of the domain privacy you have says if you are having those concerns. But I don’t think they collect the history of past ownership, that would be very detrimental to the service they offer.
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Hi there,
The Whois records for your domain only exists as long as the domain itself exists. So if the domain expires and gets deleted at the registry, the contact info will also be deleted. So at no point should your contact info be exposed.
Additionally, even if you disabled privacy, we also redact most domain contact information by default on all domains registered with us, so your full information will never be visible no matter what you do.
Note that some domain extensions don’t allow private registration, or have limitations on who can enable private registration.
You can see detailed information on how domain privacy works on WordPress.com here:
https://wordpress.com/support/domains/domain-registrations-and-privacy/
@therefoiam,
please rather tag threads like this for staff, so we can provide accurate information. If you can’t point to a previous staff reply or a support document to back up your answer, please don’t guess.
SecurityTrails only collects DNS-related info, like name servers, IP addresses, hostnames, etc. They do not collect Whois contact information, and even if they did, they’d only be able to collect information that’s publicly available, which in the case of most domains registered on WordPress.com will only be a bunch of records saying “REDACTED FOR PRIVACY”, even with private registration disabled.
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