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{{Short description|Domain name registrar service}} '''Domain privacy''' (often called '''Whois privacy''') is a service offered by a number of [[domain name registrar]]s.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Elliott|first=Kathryn|title=The who, what, where, when, and why of WHOIS: Privacy and accuracy concerns of the WHOIS database|journal=SMU Sci. & Tech. L. Rev.}}</ref> A user buys [[privacy]] from the company, who in turn replaces the user's information in the [[WHOIS]] and [[Registration Data Access Protocol]] (RDAP) with the information of a forwarding service (for email and sometimes postal mail, it is done by a [[proxy server]]).
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