Question:

I've updated my Whois record, but a Google search still shows my old information. Why?

Answer:

I’ve updated my Whois record, but a Google search still shows my old information. Why?

There are two common scenarios here:
(1) If you have recently updated your Whois record with your Registrar, but the Whois record shown on our site does not reflect that update, it is most likely that the Registrar has not propagated the update to the public domain yet. It can take up to 48 hours between you updating your information with your Registrar and the Registrar making that publicly available.
(2) If you have already updated your Whois record with your Registrar and we now show that same information on our Whois page, but a Google search still shows the old information, then what you are seeing is an indexing issue with Google. We have no control over Google search results.
Google indexes and updates their results based on their own algorithms. They do state that eventually all updated web pages will be re-indexed. However, you can read more, and follow these steps, for requesting a re-index: https://support.google.com/websearch/troubleshooter/3111061
(Use the path “Remove information already showing” “Only in Google’s search results”)

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