: Transferring Domain from GoDaddy and WHOIS Privacy I’m interested in transferring my domain name from GoDaddy to Namesilo due to renewals being a lot cheaper. However, to initiate the transfer,

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I’m interested in transferring my domain name from GoDaddy to Namesilo due to renewals being a lot cheaper. However, to initiate the transfer, GoDaddy forces me to disable my paid for domain privacy service. Since I’m not very familiar with domain transfers, would this temporarily leave my real WHOIS information exposed during the transfer?
I really don’t want any WHOIS crawling service to add and archive my unprotected domain WHOIS during the transfer.

In the case it’s not possible to transfer my domain name without my real WHOIS leaking, would it be a good idea for me to change my domain’s information to false and randomly made up information (except for my email so I can still be contacted), so that, during the transfer, any WHOIS crawler website will only potentially cache my invalid WHOIS (effectively having the same effect as domain privacy)?

I’m aware that changing WHOIS information results in GoDaddy temporarily locking my domain from being transferred for 60 days, but that’s not a problem for me, as long as my domain’s real WHOIS remains private during the transfer. After the domain transfer, I would of course change the domain information back to my real information once WHOIS privacy is enabled by Namesilo.

EDIT

I've received the following response from Namesilo's support;

Yes, removing privacy would result in your information being shown in WHOIS. However, since you can expedite transfers from Godaddy, this would only be for about 30 minutes which is very likely not enough time for any harvesters to get it

What bothers me though is the "very likely not enough time" part of that statement. I'm very paranoid, so I believe, considering the huge number of WHOIS harvesters out there, 30 minutes is enough time to grab my real WHOIS before the transfer completes. It seems like the only solid way to fully prevent my real WHOIS information from leaking is by faking the current WHOIS record and waiting for 60 days, prior to initiating the transfer.

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