# Whisper NIC: data licence and terms of use. > The published statistics and name lists are yours to use, freely and with > attribution where it is due. A registry is only useful if its record can be read and reused. So the data we publish, the live statistics and the reserved and premium name lists, comes with a clear, permissive licence. Take it, build on it, cite the sources, and you are within your rights. ## Published statistics: public domain (CC0 1.0) The aggregate operational and registry statistics on the statistics page (counts of identities, agents, zone records, resolutions, WHOIS and RDAP queries, the address-block and autonomous-system facts, and the graph totals) are dedicated to the public domain under Creative Commons Zero (CC0 1.0). Copy them, chart them, quote them, no attribution required. They are aggregate figures only: no individual client address is ever published, and the top-resolver figures are k-anonymised to masked prefixes. - Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal. - No warranty: provided as-is, read at serve time, may change. ## Published name lists: free with attribution (CC BY 4.0) The reserved and premium name lists we author are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). Share and adapt them for any purpose, including commercially, as long as you credit Whisper Security (viaGraph B.V.) and link back to the registry. The offensive blocklist we republish keeps its own upstream licence (below); honour that one when you reuse it. - Licence: CC BY 4.0. - Suggested attribution: "Whisper NIC reserved and premium names, viaGraph B.V., CC BY 4.0, nic.whisper.online/names". ## External sources we cite - **Offensive blocklist** (republished as the offensive download): the English LDNOOBW list, under CC BY 4.0 with attribution. - **Common-word vocabulary** (reference only, not republished): dwyl/english-words (`words_alpha.txt`), public domain under the Unlicense. · ## Terms of use - The published data is provided as-is, with no warranty. It is read at serve time and may change without notice; a brief gap shows the last known good figure, clearly labelled. - Be reasonable in how you fetch it. The pages are lightweight and uncached for freshness; do not hammer them. There is no rate limit to game, only good manners. - The WHOIS and RDAP record for a single identity is its own public registry object; querying it is covered by the registry policy, not this data licence. - Honour the upstream licence of any list you reuse from us (CC BY 4.0 for the offensive list, the Unlicense for the common-word reference). - Nothing here grants rights in the Whisper name, logo, or the address space itself. The data is open; the brand and the allocation are not. **Personal data & your rights.** The published statistics above are aggregate and k-anonymised — no individual client address is ever published. The personal data we do hold for an agent identity (its allocation trail, any contact email, its opaque ledger leaf) is the holder's, and we honour **data-subject rights** on it: a tenant can exercise **Art. 17 erasure** and subject-targeted purge through the control plane — we crypto-shred the per-entry ledger salt and purge the activity trail, so the data becomes unreadable while the transparency log stays consistent and verifiable. Full detail in the privacy policy (https://whisper.online/privacy) and under the hood (https://whisper.online/under-the-hood). Conservative in what we emit, generous in what we accept: the record is open on purpose, so anyone can check it and build on it. --- - **The complete record:** - **Statistics (live):** - **Reserved and premium names:** - **Policy:** - **The home for your agents:** - **AS219419:** © viaGraph B.V. (dba Whisper Security)