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What is WHOIS NamePrivacy?
WHOIS NamePrivacy is an add-on service to a domain name registration that masks sensitive contact information in the WHOIS database. This helps prevent spammers, scammers and other nefarious types from bombarding you with unsolicited advertisements and offers, or defrauding you by stealing your sensitive contact information.
What is the WHOIS database?
The WHOIS database is a public database mandated by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) - the non-profit corporation responsible for accrediting domain name registrars. This database was intended to help people contact domain registrants for valid reasons (ex. Legal disputes). However, the WHOIS database is often misused by nefarious sorts to data mine for sensitive contact information for the shady purposes of marketing to domain name registrants without their explicit consent.
Why do I need WHOIS NamePrivacy?
Because spammers and other illegal marketers continue to misuse the public WHOIS data to seed their own marketing lists for spam and other nefarious activity, you should consider masking the data that is included in the WHOIS database by using NameSecure's WHOIS NamePrivacy Service. With the NameSecure WHOIS NamePrivacy Service, your contact information in the WHOIS database is masked, thereby reducing the likelihood of spam and fraudulent activities resulting from the misuse of your sensitive contact information.
What data does/does not WHOIS NamePrivacy mask?
The NameSecure WHOIS NamePrivacy Service masks your physical mailing address, your e-mail address and your phone number for the registrant and administrative, billing and technical contacts for a domain name. The only data not masked is the registrant's name, which alone does nefarious types little good, since a name is just a name.
How does WHOIS NamePrivacy work?
NameSecure's WHOIS NamePrivacy Service masks your postal address, e-mail address and phone number in the public WHOIS database. If someone wants to get in touch with you regarding your domain name registration on which you have enabled WHOIS NamePrivacy, they can contact you via e-mail or by sending mail correspondence via USPS Express Mail, certified mail or registered mail to the proxy address that we will post in the domain's public WHOIS record. We will receive all USPS Express, certified or registered mail that is properly addressed to you, and forward it to the postal address you've associated with your domain name registration. The e-mail address associated with the domain name in WHOIS is changed frequently so as to render it useless in the event that it was obtained for an unauthorized use. With WHOIS NamePrivacy, you remain the registrant for the domain name, so you retain complete control over the domain name registration and get important messages forwarded to you, while reducing spam, unsolicited marketing material, and other undesirable outcomes associated with the unauthorized use of your sensitive contact information.
Can I control my WHOIS NamePrivacy settings?
Yes. You can control the address you want the forwarded physical mail and e-mail to arrive at in the My Account manager. And, if you want to turn off/on the WHOIS NamePrivacy Service for any reason, you may do so through My Account manager as well.
Can I add WHOIS NamePrivacy to all domains in my account?
Yes. You can add WHOIS NamePrivacy to any of the domain names in your account at any time using the Upgrade Center. Just log in to My Account manager and click on the link for the Upgrade Center. Then follow the instructions on the page. It's easy to do and takes only minutes to add WHOIS NamePrivacy to any or all domains in your account!