What is ID Privacy
Domain privacy for domain names is a very important feature if you want to reduce spam and/or risks to personal information, such as identity theft. When you register a domain name, you must supply genuine contact information according to ICAAN rules – the organization which governs the use of domain names.
Our domain privacy service will securely mask this very important information and substitute it with generic information provided by a proxy service operated by web hosting companies. Why would you want to use a domain privacy system?
Simple – when you register your domain, the information belonging to the person/company registering it becomes available through what is known as a WHOIS database.
Unfortunately, this information is also available to notorious and ill-intending marketers and even criminals who gather this now public information from your domain records and use it to spam your email account, place you on mailing lists for promotions, and even attempt to use this information for spoofing identify theft.
WHOIS Privacy also reduces spam. In your cloaked Whois information, we provide a proxy email address that changes several times a year. We forward email sent to the proxy address, but when the proxy address changes, spam sent to the old address bounces.
Why buy ID Privacy?
When you purchase and enable ID Privacy on your domain, we make the following changes in public WHOIS :
- Replace your postal address with our address.
- Replace your phone number and fax number with our phone and fax numbers.
- Replace your email address with a uniquely-generated “xyz.protect@xyzprotect.com” email address.
- Every email that is sent to the ID Privacy address is forwarded to an email address of your choice.
Buy buying a domain with us, you will have the option to choose, if you want to activate your ID Privacy
* due to registry restrictions ID Privacy cannot be used with the following domains: .asia .de .eu. .co.uk .org.uk .us