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Buying a domain - WHOIS/PTR privacy? (programming.dev)
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Hi!

I have noticed that on my domain when i run whois <domain> it returns a lot of information such as registrar name, abuse contact, creation date... even though i paid extra for "whois privacy." Then i found that for other domains whois returns a paltry amount of information such as "Malformed request." or just repeats the domain name and has "status: UNASSIGNABLE". specifically, one .fail domain and one .it domain. HOWEVER, those minimal whois records for the .it and .fail domains still have valid PTR entries that i can lookup publicly online.

HERE IS THE QUESTION: i want to buy a domain for the sole purpose of having a single A record that points to a corresponding PTR record on the VPS provider. however, i prefer to have the whois record be as minimal as the 2 examples i gave above. how are those whois entries so sparse?

I am doing all this with the goal of hosting a tor exit node. any help is greatly appreciated! have a lovely day!

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[-] CameronDev@programming.dev 7 points 5 months ago

I have my domains through cloudflare, and they are basically empty:

Domain name:
        xxxx.uk

    Data validation:
        Nominet was not able to match the registrant's name and/or address against a 3rd party 
source on 06-Jun-2023

    Registrar:
        Cloudflare, Inc. [Tag = CLOUDFLARE]
        URL: https://cloudflare.com/

    Relevant dates:
        Registered on: 06-Jun-2023
        Expiry date:  06-Jun-2026
        Last updated:  07-May-2025

    Registration status:
        Registered until expiry date.

    Name servers:
        paul.ns.cloudflare.com
        tia.ns.cloudflare.com

Disclaimer
Domain name:
        xxxx.uk

    Data validation:
        Nominet was not able to match the registrant's name and/or address against a 3rd party 
source on 06-Jun-2023

    Registrar:
        Cloudflare, Inc. [Tag = CLOUDFLARE]
        URL: https://cloudflare.com/

    Relevant dates:
        Registered on: 06-Jun-2023
        Expiry date:  06-Jun-2026
        Last updated:  07-May-2025

    Registration status:
        Registered until expiry date.

    Name servers:
        paul.ns.cloudflare.com
        tia.ns.cloudflare.com
[-] cantankerous_cashew@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

+1 for Cloudflare domains. I've got all my domains registered with them, can confirm that there are no identifiable details in the whois table for any of my domains.

[-] funkajunk@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Big same

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