• SecurityPro@lemmy.ml
          2·
          8 months ago

          Context (from the FAQ):

          "We’re not actually a domain name registration service, we’re a customer to these. We sit in between the domain name registration service and you, acting as a privacy shield.

          When you purchase a domain name through Njalla, we own it for you. However, the agreement between us grants you full usage rights to the domain. Whenever you want to, you can transfer the ownership to yourself or some other party."

          • Deckweiss@lemmy.world
            0·
            8 months ago

            afaik, that is the only way to legally have an anonymous whois entry on the clearnet (please correct me if I am wrong)

            • lemmyreader@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
              0·
              8 months ago

              I think in Europe the domain name providers (or would one rather call them resellers ?) switched to redacting all private domain holder information since a few years. It was actually quite horrible like it was before, so much email spam, a free ticket for spammers to put all those Whois information wide open on the Internet. Some providers, like Greenhost in NL, provided Whois masking (cloaking ?) for customers paying a bit more.