The global amendments specify operational requirements for providing Registration Data Directory Services (RDDS) via RDAP and detail the sunset of certain obligations for registries and registrars to provide RDDS via the WHOIS protocol by 28 January 2025.
ICANN Board Approves RDAP Amendments
If I understand it correctly WHOIS domain privacy is shutting down to be replaced by RDAP by 28 January 2025?
I don’t really understand this stuff.
- Can someone please ELI5 if we need to worry about our personal details being shown on a domain registrar?
- Do we need to do anything to hide our personal details on existing domains or on new domains when this RDAP fully replaces WHOIS by 28 January 2025.
- And is this a good or bad thing?
- Is RDAP privacy worse than WHOIS privacy?
see: “Will RDAP implementation require registry operators or registrars to make any changes to existing registration data?” and other answers.
tl;dr this is a new way to access existing data, not changing the actual data stored and returned and whether domain privacy will be a thing or not
From the public pov, theres no difference whatsoever between whois or rdap. In fact few registry and registrar already uses rdap for a few years already but still called it whois because thats what people are familiar with. Its just a protocol to dictate how should query communicate with the whois server. The whois command on major linux distro are already using rdap under the hood for a few years too but the maintainer didn’t rename the installed package to rdap because again, thats what people are familiar with. Whois privacy would still be whois privacy, your details would still stay private from the general public.
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