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Are your contact details open to misuse?
When you register a com, .net, .org, .biz, .info, .me, .mobi, .uk.com or .co domain the contact details of the owner become publicly accessible in an online database called WHOIS.
The WHOIS database displays details such as your name, address, email and phone number. This information can be searched by anyone - including spammers mining for email addresses and fraudsters looking for identities to steal.
ICANN, the international governing body for domain names, requires that full WHOIS information is provided for each domain name that is registered. Information about who is responsible for domain names is publicly available to allow rapid resolution of technical problems and to permit enforcement of consumer protection, trademark, and other laws.
Domain privacy protector
Domain Privacy Protector - only £4.95 per year
Domain Privacy Protector stops your personal details being displayed by replacing them with the details of our privacy service.
Your details remain on file as the legal domain owner and any enquiries for your domain are forwarded on to you.
Here is an example of how your contact details are protected by Domain Privacy Protector:
Without Domain Privacy Protector
domain-owner: Your Name
owner-c: AI-123456
admin-c: AI-123456
tech-c: AI-300624
bill-c: AI-300624
nserver: ns0.lcn.com 94.126.40.3
nserver: ns1.lcn.com 195.82.107.156
created: 2008-01-01 12:00:00
expires: 2018-01-01 12:00:00
changed: 2008-01-01 12:00:00
contact-handle: AI-123456
contact: Your Name
address: Your Street Address
address: Your Town
address: Your Postcode
address: Your Country
phone: Your Phone Number
email: Your Email Address
contact-handle: AI-300624
contact: Hostmaster
organisation: LCN.com Ltd
address: Units H, J, K
address: Gateway 1000
address: Whittle Way
address: Stevenage
address: England
address: SG1 2FP
address: GB
phone: +44.8700585014
fax: +44.8700585015
email: support@lcn.com
With Domain Privacy Protector
domain-owner: Domain Privacy Protector Ltd
owner-c: AI-123456
admin-c: AI-123456
tech-c: AI-300624
bill-c: AI-300624
nserver: ns0.lcn.com 94.126.40.3
nserver: ns1.lcn.com 195.82.107.156
created: 2008-01-01 12:00:00
expires: 2018-01-01 12:00:00
changed: 2008-01-01 12:00:00
contact-handle: AI-123456
contact: Domain Privacy Protector Ltd
address: Office 404, 4th Floor
address: Albany House, Regent Street
address: London
address: W1B 3HH
address: GB
phone: +44.08707440823
email: id@domainprivacyprotector.com
contact-handle: AI-300624
contact: Hostmaster
organisation: LCN.com Ltd
address: Units H, J, K
address: Gateway 1000
address: Whittle Way
address: Stevenage
address: England
address: SG1 2FP
address: GB
phone: +44.8700585014
fax: +44.8700585015
email: support@lcn.com
Email sent to the Domain Privacy Protector address will be forwarded on to your email so that legitimate mail e.g. transfer notifications will still get to you.
How to get Domain Privacy Protector
For a new domain
When you register a new domain name you will have the opportunity to add Domain Privacy Protector during the order process.
For a domain you already own
If you want to add Domain Privacy Protector to a domain you already own, simply login to you account and click on the Domain Privacy Protector link in the Account Menu.
.UK and .TEL domain names
The .UK and .TEL domain registry already provides a similar service called WHOIS Opt-out which will hide the address details but is only available to individuals. By default if a contact in the LCN system does not have the organisation field set then the contact will be set as an individual and opted out of the .UK and .TEL WHOIS.
.EU domain names
WHOIS lookups for .EU domains do not return any registrant data, you are pointed to use the web based WHOIS on the registry website. To get to the information you have to enter the text shown in a random capture code. If you have filled out the organisation field the full registrant details will be displayed otherwise only the registrant email address is displayed.