Can WhoIs Protection help Secure Domain Name?

Well it’s obvious that you have a domain name or close to it as you opted to read this article. The fact is that whenever we register a domain name we have to provide all our details correctly. Moreover the details collected are like your name, residential address & email address which are often made freely available to anyone who wants to access it.

This means that your very personal geographical as well as virtual details are accessible to anyone online on internet. This information might be useful to spammers or even hackers which might result in online/offline abuse.

But its sad that we cant hide our details as ICANN [Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers] the global registry for domain name industry, has stated a policy that each and every registrar is required to maintain a WHOIS database that contains publicly accessible contact information for all names that have been registered.

Although this is true still, Whois has an ID protection service to rescue Lets find out how?

Whois protection is provided by a web host or some others as a separate service or you can add up to cpanel provided to you. There you can change the settings to hide ID and update the changes .Each domain name & web hosting provider has different ways to change this settings. So you have to contact them for hiding Whois details.

WHOIS Protection guarantees that your private contact information is kept invisible to all Internet users, including spammers and identity thieves.
Hiding details in whois lookup will give following benefits:

1.Hide Private Information

2.Spam Protection
3.Complete Control over Domain

With the Whois details being hidden you now have even greater control over your domain name. You can have its security increased with few steps.

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