General information: DK Hostmaster collects information about the registrant, the proxy, as applicable, and the remitter of a domain name. The data collection is necessary in order for us to provide the required service (domain registration) and be able to request payment of the registration fee. The data collection also enables us to comply with relevant legislation, including fiscal legislation and the Danish Administration of Justice Act. As stated below, special rules apply to DK Hostmaster in pursuance of section 8(2) of the Danish Act on Domain Names Specially Assigned to Denmark and section 11 of the Danish Act on Legal Deposit of Published Material. Please notice that personal data are not stored or processed in encrypted form.
Whois details: It is important that Internet users can determine which person or business is the registrant (holder of the right of use) of a given domain name. In principle, therefore, the name, address and telephone number must be publicly available via our website’s whois service. This follows from section 8(2) of the Danish Act on Domain Names Specially Assigned to Denmark (the Domain Names Act).
Subsection 3 of the same section, however, allows for the Registrant, on request, to have his/her name and address and/or his/her telephone number hidden. The condition is that these details are exempt from publication pursuant to other legislation.
In order for us to comply with your request for anonymity, you must already have name and address protection with the Danish Civil Registry Service (CPR registry).
If you want us to hide your telephone number, you must have an unlisted or ex-directory number with your telephone company.
Accordingly, if you want to hide your name and address information as well as your telephone number, you must apply both to the Civil Registry and to your telephone company.
When we receive your request for anonymity and/or for your telephone number to be hidden, we will check with the CPR registry and/or telephone directory. If you have been granted anonymity and/or unlisted/ex-directory telephone number in the relevant registers, you can also be granted anonymity with us.
The Domain Names Act refers only to registrant data.
However, we have decided that proxies or remitters of a domain name may not have anonymous status unless they are also the registrant of the domain name and have anonymous status and address protection in the CPR registry.
Therefore, only the registrant of the domain name(s) in question may be accorded anonymity.
The remitter will incidentally always be hidden from publication, but the registrant will still be able to look up his or her name.
The Domain Names Act allows for DK Hostmaster, on request, to be permitted or obligated to disclose personal data to a third party. The procedure for such disclosure is available (in Danish) here.
Legal deposit of personal data: Because DK Hostmaster is obliged to deposit data in the relevant repository institution, personal data collected by us may be filed at the repository institution for an unspecified period of time. However, as a main rule, we will delete all personal data in our databases at the latest 5 years after the last active link to a domain name registration.
Enquiries about anonymised registrants: We can only communicate enquiries to anonymised registrants if a legal interest involved. This means that enquiries for the purpose of promoting sales or similar will be rejected without further notice.
Adopted on 22 December 2005, with effect from
1 January 2006
Mads Bryde Andersen Per Kølle
Chariman CEO