Does WHOIS display my home address? How do registrars handle GDPR now?

Current WHOIS practices generally do not publicly display your home address due to GDPR compliance. Registrars now mask most personal data in public WHOIS lookups, replacing it with generic contact information or redacted fields. The visibility of your data depends on your registrar's specific implementation, your geographic location (GDPR applies to EU citizens and residents), and the top-level domain's governing registry policies (e.g., some ccTLDs have different rules). While your personal information is hidden from the public view, it is still collected by the registrar and can be disclosed to third parties under specific, legally justified requests through an accreditation system. To ensure privacy, explicitly purchase a domain privacy protection service from your registrar, which replaces your personal details in their backend records with proxy information.

You can check what is publicly visible for your domain using:

whois example.com

Or for a more detailed view, query a specific registrar's WHOIS server:

whois -h whois.registrar.example example.com