Enable WHOIS privacy

Changed on Jul 11, 2025

Enables the WHOIS privacy for the domain.

Note that if the WHOIS privacy is not purchased for the domain, enabling WHOIS privacy will cause the service to be purchased for a period of 1 year. If WHOIS privacy was previously purchased and disabled, then calling this will enable the WHOIS privacy.

put/{account}/registrar/domains/{domain}/whois_privacy

Request

Base URL
https://api.dnsimple.com/v2
Auth
- HTTP basic
- or HTTP bearer
TypeScript
https://skmtc.dev/dnsimple/apis/dnsimple-api/docs/:account/registrar/domains/:domain/whois_privacy/put.ts
A function with typed inputs. Its response is checked against the schema.

Path parameters

accountinteger required

The account id

domainstring required

The domain name or id

Response

Successfully enabled whois privacy.

Example response

{
  "data": {
    "id": 1,
    "domain_id": 2,
    "expires_on": "2017-02-13",
    "enabled": true,
    "created_at": "2016-02-13T14:34:50Z",
    "updated_at": "2016-02-13T14:34:52Z"
  }
}

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Operation history