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About this site

If you have reached this website you have likely clicked on a personalised link sent to you by your registrar or service provider (reseller) regarding the verification and/or disclosure settings for your registration data stored in the contact handle ''. This website allows you to disclose or undisclose single fields of your data in the public available Whois and thus remove or apply the anonymity status.

If you choose to undisclose single fields, we will not publish the respective contact fields via our own Whois server and set them to “undisclosed” at the respective registry.

You can modify your disclosure settings to allow or prevent disclosure of the private data you have provided for your domain name registration. By selecting "disclose" for a data field, you acknowledge and agree that this data field may be published in registration data services operated by your registrar or the appropriate registry. Similarly, by selecting "do not disclose", we will replace your data with a placeholder in our own Whois server (i.e. "REDACTED FOR PRIVACY" or similar) and set your data to “undisclosed” at the respective registry. Your registration details are set to "not disclosed" per default. Please note that certain registries may still require the publication of your data despite your settings. In these cases, publication is based on a legitimate reason in accordance with GDPR which will be included in the privacy policy of the respective registry.

You have the option to disclose the following contact fields:

  • Name (including: Title, First, Middle, Last)
  • Organization
  • Address (including: Street, Zip, City, Country, State)
  • Phone Number
  • Fax Number
  • Email Address

Where registry policy allows, these changes will be applied to the domains listed above that are linked to your contact handle '' as Owner, Admin, Tech and/or Billing.

Please allow up to 24 hours until all settings are updated.

FAQ

What is Whois?

WHOIS (pronounced as the phrase "who is") is a query and response protocol that is widely used for querying databases that store the registered users or assignees of an Internet resource, in this particular case a domain name. The successor of Whois is the Registration Directory Service (RDS). The result of a whois query for a specific domain provides information about a registered domain, such as domain owner contact information, domain availability status, the company with which the domain is registered (also called the Registrar) and technical information such as registration and expiration dates of a domain and used nameservers.


What is Thin and Thick Whois?

Whois information can be stored and looked up according to either a thick or a thin data model:

  • Thin: A Thin Whois server stores only the name of the Whois server of the registrar of a domain, which in turn has the full details on the data being looked up (such as the .COM/.NET Whois servers, which refer the Whois query to the registrar where the domain was registered).
  • Thick: A Thick Whois server stores the complete Whois information from all the registrars for the particular set of data (so that one Whois server can respond with Whois information on all .ORG domains, for example).


What is the Registration Directory Service (RDS)?

It is the not yet launched successor of Whois. RDS is serving the same purpose but using different specifications. Work for RDS is currently undergoing at ICANN but as of now there is no data defined yet as to when RDS will be replacing the current Whois.


What data or which data elements do you publish?

Per default we're not publishing your private data in Whois, i.e. we do not disclose your data. In particular the data coming from our Whois server and transmitted to Registries will be redacted entirely. Please note that certain registries may still require the publication of your data despite your settings. In these cases, publication is based on a legitimate reason in accordance with GDPR which will be included in the privacy policy of the respective registry.


What is a contact handle?

A contact handle is a set of contact data which has an unique ID and is linked to a domain. Depending on the underlying top level domain (e.g. .DE, .COM, .NET, etc.) a domain can have several linked contact handles, such as owner (registrant) administrative contact (Admin) technical contact (Tech) and billing contact (Billing).


What are whois privacy/proxy services?

Whois privacy and proxy services are for people and organizations who wish to keep certain information about them from being published in public Registration Data Directory Services (including WHOIS). Privacy and proxy services are used for different reasons, including:

  • Individuals who prefer not to have their personal data published on the Internet as part of a WHOIS record.
  • Organizations within a religious, political or ethnic minority, or sharing controversial moral or sexual information.
  • Companies planning upcoming mergers, new product or service names, new movie names or other product launches.


Who is ICANN?

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) manages the top-level development and architecture of the Internet domain name space. It authorises domain name registrars, through which domain names may be registered and reassigned.


What is a registry?

In addition to ICANN, each top-level domain (TLD) is maintained and serviced technically by an administrative organization operating a registry. A registry is responsible for maintaining the database of names registered within the TLD it administers. The registry receives registration information from each domain name registrar authorized to assign names in the corresponding TLD and publishes the information using a special service, the WHOIS protocol.


What is a registrar?

A domain name registrar is an organization that manages the reservation of Internet domain names. A domain name registrar must be accredited by a generic top-level domain (gTLD) registry or a country code top-level domain (ccTLD) registry. A registrar operates in accordance with the guidelines and policies of the designated domain name registries. Key-Systems is an accredited ICANN registrar managing your domain(s).


What is a reseller?

Many registrars also offer registration through reseller affiliates. An end-user registers either directly with a registrar, or indirectly through one or more layers of resellers. Typical examples for resellers are web hosting companies or ISPs.