WHOIS Privacy – Radicenter

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WHOIS Privacy applies to international domains (for example, but not limited to: .com, .info, .net, .org, …). When registering a domain, the international umbrella organization ICANN requires personal information from the registrant, including full name, address, telephone number and e-mail address. After registering the domain, the registrant’s data is visible to the public through WHOIS searches. Among others, this information is available to marketers and spammers. We don’t always want to share our data with everyone, do we? Sometimes you do not want to associate your webpage with your name to protect your work or privacy.

If you choose to order the WHOIS Privacy service, the following information about the domain owner will be displayed:

Registrant Contact Information:
Name: Contact Privacy Inc. Customer 0123456789
Organization: Contact Privacy Inc. Customer 0123456789
City: Toronto
State: ON
Zip: M6K 3M1
Country: CA
Phone: +1.4165385457
Email: yourdomain.tld@contactprivacy.com

Three reasons why WHOIS Privacy is important:

1. Protecting your identity and privacy

WHOIS Privacy helps to prevent your name from being associated with a website or domain name, if you don’t want it to. In today’s world, there is an opportunity to maintain the anonymity, a gold-worthy resource. Therefore, if you do not want to publish with your name, phone number, email address and regular address, WHOIS Privacy is for you.

2. Avoiding unwanted offers

Publicly available contact information is often used to make various sales offers in addition to regular spam – fake alerts for domain extensions (attempts to hijack domains), offers to register a domain similar to an existing domain (sometimes with the threat of registering it). In Finland, offers were also sent home to customers by regular mail.

3. Spam prevention

International domain WHOIS data is a source from where spammers can get working e-mail addresses, where they can send spam to. Especially now, when a working contact e-mail is required to register an international domain.

You can check for yourself, what kind of information we publish about ourselves on the internet.

Subscription/Management of WHOIS Privacy service

How to order WHOIS Privacy service when registering a domain?

– When registering a domain, to order the WHOIS Privacy service, you need to check the “WHOIS Privacy” box in the order.

How to order WHOIS Privacy service for an already registered domain?

– To activate the service, you need to enter the customer area, select “Domains” from the menu, click on the corresponding domain and on the following page select “Add WHOIS Privacy service to domain”.

How do remove the WHOIS Privacy service?

– To remove the service, you need to enter the customer area, select “Domains” from the menu, click on the corresponding domain and on the following page select “Remove WHOIS Privacy service from domain”.

NB! After removing the WHOIS Privacy service, domain owner’s data becomes public. If you later decide to reactivate this service, you need to take into account that during the period when the service was inactive, bots have found the contact details of your domain, and reactivating the service may no longer be useful.

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