I got the following email this morning from CIRA…

The dot-ca WHOIS service is a public search tool that allows users to look up information about the holders of dot-ca domain names. A WHOIS search returns such information as name, address, phone and fax numbers and email address. After consulting with the public, CIRA adopted a new WHOIS policy that no longer displays this information, to provide greater privacy for our Registrants.
As an individual Registrant, your private information will be protected by default – no action is required to receive this additional privacy feature.

As a result of the changes to the dot-ca WHOIS, there have also been changes to the Registrant Agreement. To review the new Registrant Agreement, please visit http://www.cira.ca/en/cat_Registrar.html. A list of changes to the Registrant Agreement can be found here.

Please visit http://www.cira.ca/en/Whois/whois_intro.html for more information about the new dot-ca WHOIS.

I personally think this is a good move by CIRA as I know that the one concern for most customers is that they are going to be spammed through email, phone, fax or mail.

What do you think of this change?