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What is domain name privacy protection?

Also known as Private Registration. This is a term involved
with domain name registration. And it literally means you domain
name registration details are kept private or in other words
your personal details such as your name, home/ office address,
email address and phone numbers are not displayed in public data
base. If I may define private registration. In another way,
it means, Implementation of appropriate safeguard measures to
ensure the security and confidentiality of WHOIS data records,
as well as to protect the WHOIS records against threats or
identity theft that could result in substantial embarrassment,
harm, inconvenience, or unfairness to any person.

Why you need Privacy Protection?

Imagine for a second, when you register a domain, your name,
address, email address and phone numbers are immediately made
available to anyone who wants to see them? That’s right. Your
personal information is exposed 24 hours a day, everyday, to
anyone, anywhere globally who wants to see and use them. When
buying a domain name you have to provide accurate contact
information or else your domain registration could be terminated
as it would be in violation of the ICANN terms and regulations
for any and all domain name registrations.

This information has to be made publicly available to everyone
via the public WHOIS database as required by ICANN, the
international governing body for domain names. Everyday, this
valuable source of accurate contact information is targeted and
harvested by spammers and telemarketers resulting in unwanted
and unsolicited contact. Also since your contact information is
public, you are at risk for identity theft and fraud and of
being contacted by harassers and stalkers.

The benefits of making a traditional domain name registration
into a fully secured private registration

1. Prevent Identity theft and fraud. 2. Prevent unexpected
online/offline harassments and stalking 3. Prevent unsolicited
commercial emailing 4. Prevent receiving direct mail/sales
letters via your postal address 5. Prevent unwanted phone calls
from telemarketers, stalkers or any other strangers 6. Ability
to protect your privacy and safeguard all your personal contact
information.

How does private registration work? Privacy Protection or
Private Registration method ensures that your private
information will not publish on the World Wide Web publicly. And
the way this security measure work is by replacing all your
publicly visible contact details with alternate contact
information created and made available by your domain name
registrar or any other third party company who provide such
service on behalf of your domain name registrar with ICANN
approval.

So therefore you have the power to change identity theft, fraud,
or even unexpected online/offline harassments and stalking, with
a private (unlisted) registration. Some domain name
registrars offer this service as a value added service with a
price tag while some offer it for free. Either way if you are
not comfortable with the fact that your personal information is
made publicly available to anyone from any where in the world
you should definitely go for a privacy protection option when
you registering a domain name. And in order to prevent all sorts
of misconducts that can be made using your personal information.
Remember prevention is always better than cure!!!!

About Author: Dev Liyanage is an expert in the field of
eCommerce and organic search result improvement. Currently he
provide his expertise as a consultant and as a director at
Goviphosting.com One of the most reliable web and eCommerce
solution service which provides small business web hosting
services.

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