Domain Name Privacy

Domain privacy is the ability to mask the information you used to register your domain name.

Domain name privacy. When you purchase a domain from a registrar like godaddy or any other registrar for that matter they are required to report specific bits of information about the consumer for public record. It may not offer full protection. They then have to pass the information to the directory of icann whois which publishes it for all the world to see.

Domain privacy often called whois privacy is a service offered by a number of domain name registrars a user buys privacy from the company who in turn replaces the user s information in the whois with the information of a forwarding service for email and sometimes postal mail it is done by a proxy server. And it s not something you pay for once and you re done you ll be paying each year again at renewal time. Domain name privacy typically means paying an additional fee on top of your domain registration.