Domain Name Privacy Standard Information-CIRA and Whois Proposals

The Canadian Internet Registration Authority has recently announced a new domain name privacy standard in Whois. There have been several new reports that the CIRA has proposed new standards for the IP whois privacy. With these safeguards, there will be better privacy for dot ca (.ca) domains and the people who register them.

Domain name whois privacy safeguards will soon come in line with the countries newly enacted privacy laws. The hottest topic in the general public today is this new proposed domain whois standard. Part and parcel to these policies will be the CIRA's pursuit of more complete information for domain owners. Registering a name may require more information now, but less of it will be available to others through the whois look up directory.

The point of new domain whois standards in privacy is to give more protection than is currently available, even for domains such as dot com at least that is the assumption of the Canadian Internet Registration Authority. According to the president or CEO of CIRA, it is all about protecting resident's fundamental rights to privacy even in virtual reality.

It has also been stated by the CEO that the internet is an informative and wonderful force, however there needs to be more protection, so that the internet serves individuals and not the other way around.

Basically, the policy changes state that any name registered as a dot ca will only have limited information in the whois database regarding registration date, change dates, status of the domain, server and IP numbers as well as the registrars name.

You should know this only affects names registered to individuals. Organizations will find that their information will be unchanged with the domain name whois privacy standard. Finally, CIRA plans to ensure that all this information is fully available to many law enforcement agencies.