Private Registration helps hide your contact information - name, phone number, address, email address etc. - from your domain WHOIS record’s publicly accessible portion. A ‘private registration’ listing is populated with alternate contact information.
Benefits of Private Domain Registration:
- Prevents privacy intrusions.
- Deters spammers, identity thieves, fraudsters, telemarketers, harassers, stalkers and data miners.
- Gives you full control over the domain names in your account unlike “proxy” services.
How Private Domain Registration Works…
Let’s look at an example that illustrates how a private domain name registration works.
A made-up person Steve Ranches is listed on the public WHOIS for his domain ’steve456ranches.com’, along with his phone, fax, email address and street address.
Domain Name: steve456ranches.com
Registrant Contact:
Steve Ranches
501-000-0001
45 St Stephen Street
Fairfax, VA 22031
US
Administrative Contact:
Steve Ranches
sr@steve456ranches.com
501-000-0001
45 St Stephen Street
Fairfax, VA 22031
US
Here’s how this information will be protected by a private registration:
Domain Name: steve456ranches.com
Registrant Contact:
Whois Privacy Protection Service, Inc.
425-274-0657
PMB 368, 14150 NE 20th St - F1
C/O steve456ranches.com
Bellevue, WA 98007
US
Administrative Contact:
Whois Privacy Protection Service, Inc.
12345brtd@whoisprivacyprotect.com
425-274-0657
PMB 368, 14150 NE 20th St - F1
C/O steve456ranches.com
Bellevue, WA 98007
US
Private registration is indeed a good idea if you would like to keep out a couple of dinner-interrupting telemarketers from calling you each week, or being harassed by visitors to your website who have found your phone number using the WHOIS listing database.
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