We offer to protect your personal domain registration information from WHOIS searches. You can enable the ID Protect feature on domains registered with HostGator/eNom for $10 per year per domain.
Please email sales@hostgator.com or create a support ticket to sales to place your order.
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 the following pages to see more information about all the registration services we offer for your domain type.
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.
We actually sell ID Protect, 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.
