Did you know that when you register a domain, your name, address, email address and phone number are immediately made available to anyone who wants to see them? That’s right. Your personal information is exposed 24 hours a day, everyday, to anyone, anywhere.
You have the power to change this. With a private (“unlisted”) registration through Domains By Proxy (our affiliate company), registering a domain name doesn’t mean sacrificing your privacy.
Get FREE Private Registration ($7.95/yr value) when you register or transfer five or more domains, NO QUANTITY LIMIT! Protect yourself from spam, fraud, stalkers and worse by keeping your name, address, email and phone number private.
Private Registration MUST be added to your cart before checkout, in order to qualify for this offer.
This offer is valid for .COM, .NET, .ME, .INFO, .ORG, .MOBI, .BIZ, .MX, .NAME, .NL, .WS, .COM.MX, .CC, .TV, .BZ, .COM.BZ and .NET.BZ.
How Does Domain Privacy Work?
- Your new or existing domain is registered in the name of Domains By Proxy — so their information is made public — not yours.
- You retain full benefits of domain registration. You can cancel, sell, renew, or transfer your domain; set-up name servers for your domain; and resolve disputes involving your domain.
- The patented registration and email handling systems let you manage and control all postal mail and email addressed to the domain you have registered, as well as the domain’s contact information.
- Your domain registration is safe and insured against loss.
- But don’t even think about using a private registration to transmit spam, violate the law, or engage in morally objectionable activities.
Morally Objectionable Activities
Including but not limited to those which are:
- Child pornographic
- Harmful to minors
- Defamatory
- Abusive
- Threatening
- Harassing
- Tortious
- Obscene
- Racially, ethnically, or otherwise objectionable; or
- Involve hate crimes or terrorism
Domain Privacy is not true anonymity:
Personal information is collected by Pubdomains (Public Domain Registrars) while we register your domain and to provide you with this service. Though the information about end user, i.e you, our customer who has purchased services from Pubdomains is kept private with general Internet public and on WHOIS, Pubdomains is legally bound to share the information with legal authorities when demanded by them for their investigations.
Please note some domain extensions have privacy caveats:
In March 2005, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has said that all owners of .us domains will not have the option of keeping their information private, and that it must be made public.
As of June 10, 2008, the Canadian Internet Registration Authority no longer posted registration details of individuals associated with .ca domains.
Need for privacy.
Currently the Internet Coalition for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) broadly requires that the mailing address, phone number and e-mail address of those owning/managing a domain name to be made publicly available through the “WHOIS” directories. However, that policy enables spammers, direct marketers, identity thieves, or other attackers to loot the directory for personal information about these people. Plus it enables easy access to these personal details by anyone (as someone upset or concerned with the use of the domain, or just researching these people and names) regardless if this access is justified.
FAQ’s
- How do I activate privacy for my domain name?
- Can I hide my personal information in the Whois directory?
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