Domain privacy engaged but Name, Email, Phone number exposed on whois (1.Viewing)

I have WHOIS Privacy on for all my .CA domains at WHC but for some reason there is a mix where some of them show my full name, email, and phone number.

I figure there has to be another setting somewhere just like the days when I had to phone godaddy to flick another switch for privacy.


All in all I would love it if this feature actually worked and I could show or hide my whois info depending on the setting.


@richard.schreier & @FM is there a setting in my CIRA account or at WHC that I am missing?

Check the entity type ----- if the ones that are showing full WHOIS are corporations, perhaps that's the factor? (I'm not sure if corporations are allowed to have WHOIS privacy in the .ca ccTLD; under gTLDs like .com, etc., corporations can have WHOIS privacy)

I'm pretty sure all mine are set as Canadian Citizen and I can see that at godaddy but at WHC I cannot see that option once registered.

Also I have so many domains that to check them all for what shows and what does not would be a chore and a half. At godaddy I can click and it shows this, which can be edited...

Old control panel setting above




New control panel setting above






So it does appear for Red.ca the OLD control panel shows Privacy NOT engaged (pic #1) then the NEW panel (pic #2) shows it engaged. Since I can see all my whois info I assume the old panel is correct.


Thats a pretty big flaw and the idea of going through hundreds of domains is pretty daunting.

So even when the control panels get fixed @GeorgeK brings up a good question.

How does one know if a domain is accidentally set to Corporation as opposed to citizen?

I went into my CIRA control panel at: member.cira.ca/Membership/Sign_In.aspx and saw now way to check that either.


With so many domains the entire whois feature need some bulk tools but at godaddy I can at least check to see if it is set to citizen or not.

@GeorgeK is right. All "individual" type registrants (Canadian Citizen, resident etc) are redacted by the registry by default. Only "non-individual" type registrant (Corporations for example) are NOT redacted by default. CIRA accepts application from "non-individual" to have the data hidden under special circumstances. For example, a half-way house for battered women might choose to keep their address anonymous for obvious reasons. But, your registrar has the ability to turn privacy off for "individual" type registrations. @MapleDots I would strongly encourage you to ask your registrar under what conditions they would make a domain WHOIS public? They might, for example, have an obligation to do so under court order but I would presume they would tell you if that was the case.