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What is a domain privacy service? The domain privacy service will hide your information from public and substitute it with generic information provided by a web hosting company. When you register your domain, the registrant's information becomes available at a WHOIS database. | What is a domain privacy service? The domain privacy service will hide your information from public and substitute it with generic information provided by a web hosting company. When you register your domain, the registrant's information becomes available at a WHOIS database. | ||
− | Making a domain name lookup, you'll that the Whois records include the domain registrants' personal contact information such as name, phone number and email addresses (as required by ICANN (''http://www.icann.org/''). | + | Making a domain name lookup, you'll see that the Whois records include the domain registrants' personal contact information such as name, phone number and email addresses (as required by ICANN (''http://www.icann.org/''). |
Your personal information public availability makes it vulnerable for spamming or for spoofing identify theft. | Your personal information public availability makes it vulnerable for spamming or for spoofing identify theft. |