Benefits of Whois Privacy
- Prevent your inbox from being clogged up with spam
- Stay protected from fraud and identity theft
- Free for life with every new registration or transfer
This is why we provide free, lifetime domain privacy protection with every domain registration or transfer.
Our domain privacy service ensures your personal information remains secure. The service conceals your contact details, replacing your actual email address with a unique, anonymous one that can be updated as frequently as you like. Rest assured, any information you share with Namecheap stays with us.
When registering a domain, you are required by ICANN to supply and keep your contact details current for the publicly accessible Whois database. This information is essential for regulating domain ownership and registration.
Typically, this data is visible to anyone, including marketers, spammers, and cybercriminals. However, we firmly believe in protecting the privacy of every individual.
Our selected WHOIS privacy provider, Withheld for Privacy, shields your contact details by replacing them with anonymized information. This ensures protection from spam calls, junk mail, and potential identity theft.
Crucially, our privacy service provider doesn’t require your personal information, keeping it secure with us.
When someone looks up your domain, they will only see anonymous registration details, as shown in the example below.
Protected with Domain Privacy
1.Withheld for Privacy Purposes
2. Privacy service provided by Withheld
for Privacy ehf
3. Kalkofnsvegur 2, Reykjavik
4. (354) 421-2434
5.e0icff82073a43ba9ffs552162debfn1.protect
@withhel dforprivacy.com
Unprotected
1. Your Full Name
2. Your Business
3. Name
4. Your Street Address
5. Your Phone Number
6. Your Email Address
Domain privacy, also known as WHOIS protection, is a service that hides your personal information (such as your name, address, and email) from being publicly visible in the WHOIS database. Instead, the registrar’s contact information is displayed.
Without domain privacy protection, your personal information becomes publicly accessible, which can lead to spam, unwanted solicitations, identity theft, or targeted cyberattacks. Protecting your information keeps it private.
When you enable domain privacy, your registrar replaces your contact details with anonymized information in the public WHOIS directory, safeguarding your identity and personal information.
No, domain privacy does not affect your ability to manage your domain. You still have full control over your domain, including making changes and renewing it. The only difference is that your personal details are kept private.
Yes, you can disable domain privacy at any point through your hosting account dashboard. However, once disabled, your personal details will be visible in the public WHOIS database.
Yes, you can choose to remove or change your domain privacy settings at any time through your domain management dashboard. If you decide to turn it off, your personal information will become publicly visible again.
No, domain privacy does not affect your website’s search engine ranking. Search engines do not use WHOIS information to determine rankings; they focus on your website’s content and SEO practices.
Yes, you can still receive domain-related emails. The registrar will forward any communication sent to the masked WHOIS email addresses to your actual email address.