Domain privacy

Domain privacy (often called Whois privacy) is a service offered by a number of domain name registrars.^[1] A user buys privacy from the company, who in turn replaces the user's information in the WHOIS with the information of a forwarding service (for email and sometimes postal mail, it is done by a proxy server).

^ Elliott, Kathryn. "The who, what, where, when, and why of WHOIS: Privacy and accuracy concerns of the WHOIS database". SMU Sci. & Tech. L. Rev.

[1] Elliott, Kathryn. "The who, what, where, when, and why of WHOIS: Privacy and accuracy concerns of the WHOIS database". SMU Sci. & Tech. L. Rev.

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