: Whoisguard for Icelandic TLD? I have an .is domain name registered with ISNIC. Every bit of my information (name, email, address) shows up when doing a whois and I'd like to avoid that. I

@Welton855

I found a solution: in "My Settings" one must only set "Address withheld" to "Yes". This will hide all information related to the postal address, except the country code (not such a big deal).

The registrant information, which my guess is ISNIC requires it correct, will appear in the whois database. Therefore I don't think there's a way of hiding one's name...

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@Gretchen104

With some TLDs e.g. .au, it is not possible to implement domain privacy.

I can't comment on .is (it may be worth investigating) but with .au domains when there was a domain transfer issue that saw registrant address info not included with the domain, the registry advised that it wasn't a problem as there is no rule stating that whois information has to be accurate.

As long as the email address gets mail to you (you could set up one especially for the domain registration) then you may be OK to enter slightly obfuscated address info. You live in Main St? Change it to Mane St. Change the house number. etc.

In all my years as a domain reseller I have never heard of postal address info ever being used for anything apart from spam. Perhaps the .au registry knows this and it is why they don't care so much about accuracy.

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@Murray432

In my 10+ years experience I recommend


Setting a deadline for privatizing your contact info on the .is domain (i.e. 1 week)
If you can't accomplish this with Namecheap; start looking at new hosting and domain providers.


Some hosting companies will even migrate it for free if you call their Customer Support.

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