[jacekm]

I like how people responsible for .pl (Poland) domain handle this. First of all, they list only very basic data, with no names, addresses, etc. when you query their whois. To see the full data, you have to go to their website and type the captcha, which filters out at least some of the bots. But even there they display the data if it belongs to a company, they won't show any details if it's registered to a private person.

[watermelon0]

Seems like it's the same for .eu domains, and (I think) some other EU countries. For private persons you only see the email, and that's after entering the captcha.

[dingaling]

> you have to go to their website and type the captcha

I'd prefer that they'd charge me 5 eurocents per query rather than using my time and effort to feed Google's AI.

[Moter8]

Not sure why you are saying this, when the site uses a "usual" captcha (that can probably be solved easily, but that's another thing): https://www.dns.pl/cgi-bin/en_whois.pl

See also https://www.denic.de/webwhois-web20/ for the .de registry's captcha.