@Namecheap service quality has gone to hell. Apparently they're not reporting to ICANN that contact info for domains is valid and domains are randomly getting suspended for no reason. I'll probably be moving my domains to a different host once I find a good one...
I figured "whoisguard is now free" just meant "we're complying with GDPR and hiding your contact info without delegating to a third party", but apparently they do that anyway without whoisguard enabled and enabling whoisguard just suspends your domain for no reason.
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That’s an...interesting choice.
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Apparently whoisguard is a dead company now that their service is useless (because of GDPR) and they've just shutdown while still nominally being in control of millions of domains...
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@Namecheap screwed up on was promoting "whoisguard is now free" rather than "whoisguard is obsolete thanks to GDPR, everybody gets whois privacy for free". CS rep ack'd it was a whoisguard issue and fixed it quickly so I probably won't be leaving over this. -
GDPR protection only applies to EU residents. If registrant is not located in EU, their WHOIS info will be publicly displayed. So they either have to pay for privacy protection or use free service if registrar offers it.
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No, it applies to EU citizens regardless of address, and registrars have no way to determine citizenship, so they must assume it applies to everyone.
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That's not fully correct. For example, GoDaddy uses local microsites for different regions. Region determines if ur eligible for GDPR. Customers in Morocco r sent to French microsite, so they will be treated as EU subjects & WHOIS will be redacted. In US? Whois will b public.
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That may be true but it's not GDPR compliant. Local microsites do not help because someone to whom GDPR applies can be using any of them. Any registrar doing that is going to be hit with HUGE fines.
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I doubt it. Registrars and their legal counsel are confident in what they're doing is compliant. If we assume everyone is covered by GDPR, we must assume every law in every country applies to every human being. And that's not how it works.
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