What is domain privacy protection? Privacy protection is covering your contact information such as full name, mailing address and phone number from publicly available to anyone by replaces with Domain Privacy Protection Service contact details. When buying a domain name the person or organization contact information is necessary to fulfil the registration agreement if not the domain purchasing would be terminate. The domain name registrant information has to be made publicly to everyone via the public WHOIS database as required by ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) the international governing body for domain names.
Why owner information has to be made publicly? This is because the other user could check and verifying domain ownership. For example, user can checking domain ownership if the domain is transferred or is under investigated for illegal activities on the internet such as banking frauds, used fake identity registration, illegal money transactions or copyright violations.
WHOIS is a public database containing the contact information of all registered and active domains and their owners. By registering a domain name you contact information automatically listed in WHOIS database.
According to ICANN rules and regulations the WHOIS database is public and accessible by anyone that can look up a WHOIS of a domain name including spammers, hackers, identity thieves and all types of scammers.
This became good and free opportunity to spammers, hackers and all types of scammers to use these data for illegal activities. At least you will be exposed to unsolicited commercial emails (SPAM), other junk emails and telemarketing calls.
Domain Privacy Protection is the service that guards domain WHOIS from public view and therefore from unwanted solicitations, scams and worse the identity theft. To avoid this domain owner need protect they contact information before becoming the internet victim.
Privacy Protection ensures that your private information is not published by replacing all your publicly visible contact details with alternate contact information.
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PRIVACYPROTECT.ORG is providing privacy protection services for domain name to protect the owner from spam and phishing attacks. PrivacyProtect.org is not responsible for any of the activities associated with the domain name. If you wish to report any abuse concerning the usage of the domain name, you may do so at http://privacyprotect.org/contact