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Gandi helps guard your privacy - Ivan

Ivan — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 16:09:11 +0200

Is there any chance to introduce private domain registration also for MOBI domains ?

Gandi helps guard your privacy - tooper

tooper — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:33:09 +0200

With new french laws Hadopi and Lopsi coming up, what is the future of privacy for any server hosting located in France ? Hadopi2 will force hosting company to check activities of the people they host unless they can be liable 'not to secure their access against piracy', and Lopsi will allow French government to legally install spying software probably first on hosting companies.
Any plans to propose safe hosting in countries where personal privacy still as a meaning ?

Gandi helps guard your privacy - Francois

Francois — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 12:09:22 +0200

A week ago I activated domain privacy on my domains hosted with Gandi. However, when I do a whois search now, I still see my street address, email and telephone number. Why is this?

Gandi helps guard your privacy - Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:43:35 +0200

@Anonymous: Your questions are very interesting and are an excellent opening to a healthy discussion on internet privacy and the legal obligations of domain name owners and registrars! Note however, that while we are totally open and transparent in this dialogue, you have chosen to remain secretive in your communication. Indeed, in the spirit of Gandi and the Gandi Bar (and as we have indicated beneath the comment field), we invite you to please let us know who it is that we are speaking with, so that this discussion can continue to be beneficial to everyone.

Because we are proud of the way we have chosen to combine privacy with our role as a responsible registrar,
I invite everyone to check out our Whois privacy policy at: http://www.gandi.net/contracts/en/w... As are all Gandi contracts, you will find that the language that we use is clear, transparent and professional.

Gandi helps guard your privacy - Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:13:30 +0200

In any case, the wording in the Gandi policy seems to suggest that if any random person emailed Gandi and said "could I please have the private whois information for example.org", you'd just send it to them without question. Does that accurately describe your policy?

Gandi helps guard your privacy - Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:10:33 +0200

@Ryan: I do appreciate Gandi making its position clear up front. However, as far as I can tell the ICANN and registrar rules only require providing contact information that reaches the domain owner; that doesn't necessarily mean the private contact information of the domain owner. For example, the phone number and email address provided by DynDNS's "Secret Registration" simply lead to an automated message saying to use http://secretregistration.com to contact the domain owner.

If Gandi believes that the ICANN or registrar rules require providing the private contact information of the domain owner, and not merely contact information which reaches the domain owner, then could you please point to a copy of those rules and point out where they make such a requirement?

Gandi helps guard your privacy - Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:33:19 +0200

@Dee: note that this service is only applicable to accounts that are created for "individuals". If you have a "company", "reseller", or "association" account for example, this cannot be activated.
@Anonymous: We need to be sure that we continue to adhere to ICANN rules and regulations, though also those of the registries which are *very* clear on this - that the registration information for a domain name *must* be provided when requested. This is imposed on all ICANN accredited registrars - it is then up to the registrar to either play by the rules or not - and as you know, Gandi takes pride in our ethical, honest, and transparent way of doing things.

With regards to the contract, a major difference is that in our contract, we choose to say it plainly, and simply to avoid any possible unwelcome surprises. To this effect, condition "d" that you provided, allows them to do the same, though it is not stated as clearly, so can lead to a false sense of security - in fact, you do not know for sure where you stand with their contract.

Gandi helps guard your privacy - A Happy Customer

A Happy Customer — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 02:45:35 +0200

Awesome! I was hoping that Gandi would offer this service.

I do have one question though- would you notify us if someone requests our contact information?

Gandi helps guard your privacy - Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 01:32:05 +0200

Perfect timing! I wanted to register a domain, and I liked Gandi based on what I'd seen, but I had planned to go with DynDNS because they provide a privacy service for whois information.

However, the terms of service for Gandi's whois privacy service raise a few questions. Most notably, they seem to say that Gandi will provide the private contact information to "any third party that requests it". That seems like a fairly useless privacy service. I would hope for something that only discloses the private contact information in the event of a court order.

DynDNS's "Secret Registration" doesn't go quite that far, but it does say they will only disclose the private information when "(a) required to do so by law; (b) necessary to comply with any legal process served on DynDNS; (c) DynDNS, in good faith, believes that law requires it to make such a disclosure; and/or (d) deemed necessary by DynDNS to protect its rights in connection with any claims between DynDNS and You and/or any third party concerning this Agreement;". That seems like a significant improvement over Gandi's service offering to give the information to anyone who asks.

Gandi helps guard your privacy - Zhangjia

Zhangjia — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:52:31 +0200

Great!
I love this!
Keep up the excellent work!

Gandi helps guard your privacy - joe

joe — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:09:30 +0200

Hi dee, if you login to gandi then go to update your personal details, the option is available as a radio button at the bottom of your details, next to the other privacy policy selections. I hope that helps, Joe

Gandi helps guard your privacy - dee

dee — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:05:34 +0200

Great! HOW do I do it???????? Please provide where and how this can be accomplished, I've looked and can't see it.

[ping] Gandi helps guard your privacy - The Changelog

The Changelog — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:42:22 +0200

My DNS happiness is complete

I have been using Gandi as my preferred register for some years now. They have probably the most customer-friendly AUP out there, are reliable, and good decent folks. I have liked everything about them. Except the fact that they don't have whois priv...

Gandi helps guard your privacy - SKN

SKN — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:19:02 +0200

Great! Was looking forward to this addition.

Gandi helps guard your privacy - Ben

Ben — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:06:35 +0200

This is fantastic news. Your explanation is great, and as always you address the major questions and concerns. Keep up the excellent work!