WHOIS Publicity for Enom Domains

By default, domain contact data is redacted and replaced with placeholder information to protect against personal information exposure under privacy laws worldwide. WHOIS Publicity lets registrants choose to publish their contact information in the public WHOIS record. This article explains how to enable WHOIS Publicity, what each status means, and what data is displayed.

How WHOIS Publicity works

Only WHOIS lookup services that pull results from the Enom WHOIS server will return the registrant details for any of your publicity-activated domains.

Enabling WHOIS Publicity

WHOIS Publicity must be enabled from your account, or via the API if you are a reseller, before it can be activated on a domain.

1. Select Domains from the top toolbar and choose My domains from the drop-down menu.
2. Check off any domain you want to enable WHOIS Publicity on.
3. From the List action menu in the lower-left corner, select Add Whois Publicity and click Go.
4. On the Bulk add services page, click Instant purchaseto add it to the domain.

   Note: The cost is $0.00/yr per domain.

5. A confirmation page shows the successful addition to the domain.

6. An email is sent to the registrant's contact email with a link to activate WHOIS Publicity. Once received, the registrant clicks the checkbox followed by Save preferences.

   Note: The registrant only needs to provide consent for WHOIS Publicity once. If they later choose to enable the Publicity service on another domain, it activates automatically as long as their consent status remains set to on.

WHOIS Publicity statuses

You can see the status of WHOIS Publicity on your domain management page.

1. Select Domains from the top toolbar and then My domains from the drop-down menu.

2. Hover your cursor over any WHOIS Publicity icon to see its status.

Contact data that is displayed

When WHOIS Publicity is enabled, Enom displays:

• All registrant data required under the registry’s contract for your TLD.
• Any data you have given consent to process. You can provide consent through your data sharing preferences page, sent via email.

The full registrant data set includes:

• First and last name
• Organization (if provided)
• Street, city, state, and zip or postal code
• Country
• Phone number
• Fax number (if provided)
• Email address

Domains with ID Protect enabled

If both ID Protect and WHOIS Publicity are active on the same domain, ID Protect always takes priority. Public WHOIS queries return the ID Protect fields instead of the registrant’s information. You must disable ID Protect for WHOIS Publicity to take effect.

Disabling WHOIS Publicity

WHOIS Publicity can be disabled and re-enabled at any time via your account, or via the API if you are a reseller.

1. Select Domains from the top toolbar and then My domains from the drop-down menu.
2. Click the domain name you are working with.
3. Select Contact information using the Manage domain menu, or at the bottom of the page.
4. Check off your desired status for WHOIS Publicity and click Save.

Next steps

• To mask contact data instead of publishing it, see Managing ID Protect.
• For background on default redaction, see General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR).

Questions? Contact Enom Support.