Kudos to namecheap for making whoisguard (domain whois protection) free forever!

Kudos to them for giving everyone the option of privacy, for free.

Really? Awesome!

@yendenikhil Yes! Had a chat with their support to confirm it and they confirmed :D

@linuxxx I hate the who is which not only displays your name but address as well. Who the fuck thought it was good idea? It is like linking your email address with your name and home address and fucking welcome sign.

Are you sure it's namecheap and not the GDPR to thank for this?

Great :D Bought a domain from them in January, guess I need to transfer my other domain from GoDaddy, lets hope it is not a pain to do so

@Npstr Well, it's a premium service and I haven't seen other providers doing this. Also, namecheap isn't EU based....

@gitpush They've got 16 tld's for 48 cent today, trying to think of some good names to register 😅

@linuxxx By the way I know it is service related, but my other domain expires next month, is there a deadline before I can start the transfer process? or it can be done anytime?

@linuxxx hahaha Same here, I wouldn't say no for a dummy domain to my self lol

@linuxxx damn they are true to their name.
(goes on registry binche)

Depends on the tld but at least do it before expiry to avoid costs. I know that for com domains, they are locked for 60 days at the registrar (not allowed to move) after registration.

@linuxxx Thanks man I'll check it out this weekend, and my domain is .net lets' hope I'm not too late, not planning to lose this one lol

@gitpush Keep the validation in mind. You need to confirm the moving of a net domain by email (14 days to do that after initiating) and when done, you need to do another email confirmation. If you don't do that (click on a link sent through an email from domain-notice.com) within 14 days, it will be taken offline until you do.

@linuxxx Sorry last question, what does Namecheap mean by retail price? for example found a domain for few cents, but retail price is 10$

@linuxxx Noted, I'll work on it this weekend, thank you so much

Well they aren't a European company but they would be forced to offer the service to European customers is what I understand. Let's not have yet another GDPR thread tho :D Whatever the reason, this is a nice change anyways. I have a few domains on namecheap with <30 days left, feeling great about not renewing immediately.

@gitpush I guess the usual price at other registrars? But that's just a guess, idk haha

@linuxxx guess I'll take the risk and pay the few cents and if I don't like the result after one year then I'll just cancel XD Thanks man :)

@gitpush Np!

Just to confirm what @linuxxx said

and I bought my domain, now time to throw my ToDo vue website on it and hope I don't get hacked soon :3

@linuxxx i cant find the 16 tlds thing, only the 60% on .org :/

@JiggleTits I searched randomly and got a .club domain for 0.99$ when it was originally 10$

Don't know if that's what Linuxxx meant tbh

@gitpush not quite 16 TLDs for 48 cents tho XD

@JiggleTits aah sorry missed the 48 cents part lol

@linuxxx isn't whois anyway completely anonymized now? so whats the reason for that service to exist, given youre an EU member.

Also there has to be some hidden message right, because they were doing mad cash on it before and they could still charge non EU members.

Can you also update existing domains?

@JoshBent Nope. Source: my job.

Agree with you but couldn't find anything on their site...

What do you mean exactly?

@linuxxx I mean you can't anymore just check on everybodys whois, if you're not e.g an authority doing an investigation, so in that sense it's already covering the whois.

I am still sceptical, gonna check it out too, afterall why would they give up on a good amount of money, just like that.

@linuxxx also whois caches are now illegal to hold, that's a great side effect of gdpr 😊

@linuxxx

just checked their page: https://namecheap.com/security/...

And my personal panel too and it actually seems without any hidden text, really weird how they decided to just give up on all that profit..

Uniregistry has also had free WHOIS privacy for a while now: https://uniregistry.com/security

Yo, thanks for letting us know!

namesilo and internetbs too as far as I know.

@gitpush it's advisable to start the transfer min 2 weeks before the expiry date. The whole transfer process usually takes few days to a week if all process is done without any mistake. Also don't forget to backup/export your existing DNS records from old provider first. And configure on new provider to use existing DNS records while in transfer process.

@yendenikhil You do know that in the early days of the internet, there was literally an "email phone book" that had people's names and emails, right?

@JoshBent For some companies it really is just morals/ethics sometimes :)

Kiitos to them.

@cursee thanks noted 😀