Defines a set of possible contact privacy settings for a
Registration.
ICANN <https://icann.org/>__ maintains the WHOIS database, a
publicly accessible mapping from domain name to contact information,
and requires that each domain name have an entry. Choose from these
options to control how much information in your ContactSettings
is published.
Enums
Name
Description
CONTACT_PRIVACY_UNSPECIFIED
The contact privacy settings are undefined.
PUBLIC_CONTACT_DATA
All the data from `ContactSettings` is publicly available. When setting this option, you must also provide a `PUBLIC_CONTACT_DATA_ACKNOWLEDGEMENT` in the `contact_notices` field of the request.
PRIVATE_CONTACT_DATA
None of the data from `ContactSettings` is publicly available. Instead, proxy contact data is published for your domain. Email sent to the proxy email address is forwarded to the registrant's email address. Cloud Domains provides this privacy proxy service at no additional cost.
REDACTED_CONTACT_DATA
Some data from `ContactSettings` is publicly available. The actual information redacted depends on the domain. For details, see `the registration privacy article
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