Also known as Privacy Protection
All domain owners are required to maintain accurate and valid personal or business contact information in their "Whois" data. Whois privacy offers to protect your personal domain registration information from public whois searches.
With Launchpad, whois privacy is a free service!
- Login to http://gbclient.hostgator.com/
- In the left-hand menu, click View Domain Names
- Scroll down about halfway, and you will find Privacy Protection
eNom customers
You can enable the ID Protect feature (Whois privacy) for $10 per year per domain.
Please email sales@hostgator.com to place your order (or submit a ticket to sales).
Sometimes the domains are registered with Brent's information because we do the registration manually. This is not private registration, and you will not get important updates about your domain until you change the whois information.
You need an actual ID Protect service, which replaces all of your personal information with Enom contacts, and email is redirected to you. Enom will constantly change their contact email listed in your Whois. This way a person will only get a temporary email to reach you, thus it stops working before it can reach harmful spammers.
Not all domain extensions (TLD's) are allowed to have private whois. Each .com, .net, etc. sets their own rules regarding this. Most ccTLD's (country code top level domains) do not actually allow whois protection.
In March 2005, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has said that all owners of .us domains will not have the option of keeping their information private, and that it must be made public.
You may visit this page to see more information about all the registration services we offer for your domain type. Use the three tabs to toggle between the different types of domain names.