You may purchase Privacy Protection or renew Privacy Protection (if the Privacy Protection expiry date is earlier than the domain name expiry date), for an existing domain name.
.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.
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Due to restrictions enforced through ICANN's contract with the Sponsor/Registry Operator:
You may offer Privacy Protection as a paid or a free service. If you were previously offering privacy protection as a free service and wish to continue it, no changes are required on your part except setting your Selling Price for Privacy Protection to zero. However, if you wish to start charging for it, you will have to make the below changes to support this change.
Setting your Selling Price (After launch of Paid Privacy Protection)
Login to your Control Panel.
In the Menu, point to Settings and click Manage Products and Pricing.
Click the Domain Registration link
Under the Add-On Services section, click the Manage Prices link next to Privacy Protection.
Mention your Selling Price for your Customers and Sub-Resellers in the appropriate fields.
Products -> Domain -> Common -> Privacy_protect_landing_page.html
API Changes
Below changes to the API calls need to implemented:
Domain Registration and Domain Transfer: If you wish to purchase Privacy Protection when registering or transferring a domain name, your Registration or Transfer API call must include an additional parameter purchase-privacy with the value true. This will ensure that the service is purchased for the same term as the domain name. You can continue to use the existing parameter privacy-protect with the value true as long as your Selling Price to Customers in our system is set to zero. However, do keep in mind that your Reseller Account will be charged for the service.
Sample Registration Call for Paid Privacy Protection (Selling Price to Customers is set to non zero in our system)
Domain Renewal: If the Privacy Protection service is expiring before or along with the domain name, it can be extended along with the domain name itself. For this, the Renewal API call must include the additional parameter purchase-privacy with the value true.
Sample Renewal Call for Paid Privacy Protection (Selling Price to Customers is set to non zero in our system)
Purchasing / Renewing Privacy Protection for an existing Domain Name: Before enabling the Privacy Protection service for a domain name, it must be purchased for the domain name. This must be done using the Purchase Privacy API call, which will add and activate the service for the domain name until its expiration date. The same call can be used to renew the Privacy Protection service if it expires before the expiration of the domain name itself.
Sample Purchase Call for Paid Privacy Protection (Selling Price to Customers is set to non zero in our system)
