#Cloudflare not redacting our RDAP data on new domain registration?

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native pond
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As title, purchased a new domain through cloudflare and have been getting targeted with spam emails. I was very surprised to see my contact info openly displayed in the RDAP registry whereas all of my WHOIS data is redacted. Is this expected ?

brittle linden
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Is this a .ai domain?

native pond
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Yes it is. Is that a part of the issue?

brittle linden
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.ai domains don't support whois redaction, which is the only kind of whois protection Cloudflare offers.

Cloudflare is working on making this more clear during the registration process.

native pond
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Hmm my WHOIS data for the domain is redacted though. It’s the RDAP data that is delivered in JSON format that is not redacted. As far as I’m aware, RDAP is the successor and I think it was finally adopted earlier this year?

brittle linden
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Is it redacted on there?

native pond
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Nope, but isn’t that just a scraper of the JSON data?

brittle linden
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That's the whois service of the ai domain.

native pond
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This is what I see when I do a lookup on ICANN

brittle linden
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ICANN probably queries Cloudflare's whois service, which is redacted. It's also not helping you.

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the .ai domain simply does not offer whois redaction.

native pond
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That seems…deliberate?

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Would you happen to know if I can workaround this to scrub my info? Really not interested in being spammed like this lol

brittle linden
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Other registrars offer privacy services where they submit their own contact data to the registry, but Cloudflare doesn't.

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