Bulk Domain Privacy Protection Rules and Limitations

When bulk privacy protection actions fail or are unavailable for certain domains. This article explains bulk domain privacy protection rules and limitations.

Bulk Privacy Protection is not available due to various restrictions imposed by the Registry Operator, for the following TLDs (extensions):

• .ASIA
• .AT
• .AU
• .CA

• .CN
• .DE
• .ES
• .EU
• .HN
• .IN
• .NZ
• .PRO
• .RU
• .SX
• .TEL
• .UK

Additional Information

.UK Registrants who are non-trading individuals (those who do not use or plan to use their domain name for business, 
trade [including registration of domain names for monetization purposes] or professional transactions) 
can choose to opt out of having their Contact Details displayed in the Whois lookup.

This option can be enabled by the Registrant from within his Nominet control panel.

• .US

Due to restrictions enforced through ICANN's contract with the Sponsor/Registry Operator:

• .COOP

Due to other restrictions:

• .ORG.CO
• .MIL.CO
• .GOV.CO
• .EDU.CO

• If you are transferring away your domain name from us, you need to first disable Privacy Protection and then place a Transfer request at the Registrar of your choice.

• Depending upon whether the Privacy Protection feature is available for a TLD or not, the Order Details view of your domain name may or may not display the Privacy Protection status, under Order Information.

   

  If Privacy Protection is available for your domain name, then you would see the following status:

  • Privacy Protection: Enabled - This indicates that the Privacy Protection feature has been turned on for your domain name and your personal Contact Details are not being displayed in the Whois of your domain name.

  • Privacy Protection: Disabled - This indicates that the Privacy Protection feature has been turned off for your domain name and your personal Contact Details are being displayed in the Whois of your domain name.

• If the domain name is Locked by us, it needs to be first Unlocked by us, before you can proceed with the Bulk Privacy Protection.

• If the domain name is Locked by you, you may proceed with the Bulk Privacy Protection without Unlocking it.

• If the domain name is Suspended by us, it needs to be first Unsuspended, before you can proceed with the Bulk Privacy Protection.

• The Bulk Privacy Protection feature is not supported for .ME domain names.