WHOIS privacy (sometimes called domain privacy or ID protection) hides your personal contact information from the public WHOIS database. Availability and pricing differ between .ca and other TLDs — here's what applies to each.

Short answer for .ca: if you registered a .ca domain as a Canadian Citizen or Permanent Resident of Canada, WHOIS privacy is free and already enabled by default. You don't need to do anything.

.ca domains

For .ca domains registered to individuals, CIRA (the .ca registry) automatically hides your personal contact details from public WHOIS lookups. This is enabled by default at registration and costs nothing extra.

This applies if your registrant type is:

  • Canadian Citizen
  • Permanent Resident of Canada

If you'd like your WHOIS information to be public (for example, so other businesses can contact you), open a support ticket and we'll disable privacy for your domain.

WHOIS privacy is not available if your registrant type is Corporation, Government, Educational Institution, or any other non-individual type. This is a CIRA policy and applies to all .ca registrars — not specific to CanSpace.

.com, .net, .org, and other TLDs

For domains outside the .ca namespace, WHOIS privacy is a paid add-on. Most TLDs support it for around $4.99/year.

To enable or disable WHOIS privacy on a non-.ca domain, open a support ticket and we'll take care of it.

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