Google's John Mueller said that having a private whois domain name registration status does not change how Google trusts the site. It really does not impact the site's rankings in Google Search. He ...

Certificate authorities and browser makers are planning to end the use of WHOIS data verifying domain ownership following a report that demonstrated how threat actors could abuse the process to obtain ...

Probably the right idea, although a not-insignificant part of me want to go back to the requirement that WHOIS data be public and accurate. If nothing else, that creates some minimal accountability ...