Domain whois State / Country not private

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Whois redaction is not the same as Whois privacy.

Kindly, see my post here:

If cloudflare registrar is used, will not be able to find domain's owner?

Greetings, Thank you for asking. I have couple of domains registered at Cloudflare Registrar, all of them show “DATA REDACTED”, except country code (two letters) and state/province. From the Cloudflare Docs, if you register a domain using Cloudflare Registrar, you’d get WHOIS redaction which isn’t the same as WHOIS privacy provided by some of the known WHOIS privacy services like WhoisGuard or some other. Whois privacy service provider like WhoisGuard or Withheld for Privacy, hides your cont…

@EvilPechenka

For some reason

due to ICANN policy

https://www.icann.org/rdds-labeling-display

And the new RDAP which requires country in ISO format.

https://www.icann.org/rdap

The next generation of WHOIS is born - Clarivate

From the docs:

WHOIS redaction · Cloudflare Registrar docs