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Why is my email address not visible in the whois?

Each handle at Gandi has a feature that allows us to display a temporary email address in the whois database instead of the contact's real email address.

The temporary address looks like this:

 ab3a1046d1b51f35a55862198a88013b-ar41@contact.gandi.net

Despite it ending in gandi.net it is not addressed to us!

This is simply a forwarding address. Emails sent to that address are automatically forwarded to the email address that you entered when you set up your account.

Note:

Ok, but why are mails sent there not going into my mailbox? This is because either you are checking the wrong email address, or your email provider or program is flagging these forwarded mails as spam, so you will want to check your spam folder.

If you need to disable this feature, so that your real email address appears in the whois listing, simply disable the anti-spam protection from your account's settings (see how).

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Last modified: 02 Sep 2010 at 15:15 by Ryan A. (Gandi)