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Mr-White

Mr-White

Mr-White

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I don't want my address published with my domains as I feel it's a security risk (I have nothing to hide but you never know who looking at it) but I also don't want to pay them £10 a year for them to not display it. Is there any reason why I can't just amend the details I give them, not necessarily lie but make my location more vague by leaving out the house number of street name ?

MW
 
I don't know why some companies charge you to hide your details from the whois lookup.
A mate of mine was charged £5 or so to hide his details, but for me, all I had to do was tick a box (no charge) when buying the domain.
 
I don't mind giving them my details, as they have them already when I paid, I just don't want them readily available across the internet.

MW
 
Steve09 said:
I don't know why some companies charge you to hide your details from the whois lookup.
A mate of mine was charged £5 or so to hide his details, but for me, all I had to do was tick a box (no charge) when buying the domain.
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Generally speaking, if the domain is a .co.uk one and you are a "non-trading individual" then you simply "Opt out" during registration or via your cPanel afterwards. If it's a .com though, it's normal for companies to charge a fee to apply domain protection to it and hide personal details. You don't get the "Opt out" option with .com and other TLD's. :cool:
 
domainsite.com charges $0.50/yr for whois protection.
and you can pay by paypal. i normally use them for domain purchases. i never use fake details, but there is nothing stopping you from doing so (you could always find a whois protected domain and use their details (the whois protection company) and no one would ever know)
 
Just remember that ICANN T&C's state that you must use your correct contact details in Domain registration.
These need to be your details and not those of the domain holding company etc.
By using "hidden Whois" information there is the possibility of losing a domain.
If somebody sees that incorrect details are being displayed in a WHOIS for a domain, that person can contact ICANN.
ICANN will look into the situation and can decide to simply take the domain away.
It is unlikely, but it could happen - so you should be extra careful if the domain is important to you.

Woth Nominet issued domains, so long as you're a private individual you can "opt-out" of WHOIS which is a free masking service if you like.
 
The domains are hosted with reg-123, ones a .com and the other is a .net.

Like I said before I don't mind them having my details but as an individual I don't like the security risks of having my details published across the internet. They're not likely to cover my losses if my identity is stolen.

MW
 
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