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There's a cost associated with providing that protection... e.g. Lawyers to defend the right to protect your privacy. https://www.quora.com/Why-does-domain-privacy-cost-extra
In addition, a lot of the time WHOIS protection is unnecessary. If you're a business, putting your address and contact details on a domain is kind of expected. It would seem shady if you didn't.
GDPR
That affects EU citizens and not doing business only.
I understand There's a cost associated with providing that protection...But why does the same Registrar offer Free WHOIS Privacy for one domain but not another?
For example:
Gandi.net offers free WHOIS Privacy for .info but they don't do it for .biz
Maybe they feel the domain is not worth, or, have to had a public whois info
Dynadot also provides free whois privacy, name.com also with the coupon code.
GoDaddy charges $10 for whois privacy. It depends upon the registrar, the larger the company the more they will charge for even free things.
Look at network solutions, their renewal fee is $35 and whois privacy $10+.
Most (lcn.com and register.it tried European mostly) registrars are now hiding whois details without evwn enabling whois privacy. They provide a contact form link to contact the admin of the domain.
Cash grab. GoDaddy feeds of the noob corporate's and tech illiterate
Commercial / complaince (or lack of the rules) reasons presumably.
its as obvious like this business model
project a rate, put addons for extra profit
Those who registered in EU and follow GDPR provide it for free, even switch existing non Whois privacy domains to privacy enabled for free.
I don't think that there is a deep reason for this difference.
My guess is that .biz is more likely used for businesses (where's it's good/expected to have a public WHOIS), whereas .info is more likely to be used by non-business individuals/organizations that may prefer WHOIS privacy.