Uk Domain Privacy Protection
Due to uk requirements and limitations changes must be made by our domain support staff.
Uk domain privacy protection. Full domain privacy protection puts your domain on lockdown making inadvertent accidental or malicious transfers virtually impossible. This protects you from theft malicious transfers or even honest mistakes like the accidental deletion of your domain. We assign a unique email address for your domain contact email.
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. Rather than having your personal email address out there for the world to see full domain privacy protection includes a private email address for domain inquiries that you can forward to another account filter or block completely. Unfortunately due to registry restrictions it s not possible to use whoisguard with uk domains.
Please note that only new whois queries would reflect the change in privacy. In fact over 2m of our 10 5m registrations have successfully opted out so. One thing a lot of webmasters commonly want to know is whether or not they need domain privacy protection for their website.
However to comply with gdpr standards the uk registry does not show domain contact information in whois. Full domain privacy protection puts your domain on lockdown making inadvertent accidental or malicious transfers virtually impossible. A lot popular registrars hosts like godaddy namecheap network solutions hostgator 1and1 etc.
Offer this service for a monthly or yearly fee typically it can cost you anywhere from 2 99 to 7 99 per year. For all other domain names there is an annual domain privacy charge of 3 95 vat. What about emails sent to the domain contact.
For uk domain names there is no charge as we use the uk registry nominet individual whois opt out service. Domain ownership and privacy protection from 123 reg adds an extra layer of security by locking your domain under a unique password that only you have access to. It make take up to 48 hours for it to be accomplished.