Domain registration privacy

The following provides answers to common questions about domain registration privacy.

FAQs

Why should I be concerned about domain registration privacy?

When you purchase a domain registration, ICANN requires you to submit personal details such as your name and address. When the purchase is complete, these personal details are publicly accessible to anyone running a registration lookup.

Domain registration privacy offers you the option to replace your public personal information with anonymous information, thereby protecting your personal data.

When you run a registration lookup, several personal details of the owner of the registration are available, such as:

• Full name
• Full address
• Phone number
• Email address

To protect yourself against malevolent individuals, it's highly recommended that you enable privacy protection for your registration.

See this article for details on how to enable free privacy protection.

Yes. DreamHost offers domain privacy for free (for supported TLDs). Most other registrars charge for this service, adding to the cost of a registration.

Due to laws on data protection and privacy, if you need your information displayed publicly, please contact support.

Yes. Domain registration privacy does not need to be disabled in order to transfer a domain away from DreamHost.

Since your registration information is private, the email listed in a lookup is a proxy address, not your actual address. If an email is sent to this proxy address, it forwards to the email you configured in your registration's contact information.

Not all TLDs allow privacy to be enabled. The following do not allow privacy to be added at DreamHost:

• .am
• .archi
• .asia
• .at
• .audio
• .auto
• .barcelona
• .bz
• .ca
• .car
• .cars
• .click
• .co.nz
• .co.uk
• .de
• .diet
• .es
• .eu
• .film
• .flowers
• .fm
• .game
• .gift
• .guitars
• .help
• .hiphop
• .hosting
• .in
• .inc
• .io
• .jp
• .la
• .law
• .link
• .lol
• .me.uk
• .mom
• .net.nz
• .ngo
• .nyc
• .ong
• .org.nz
• .org.uk
• .physio
• .pics
• .pro
• .property
• .quebec
• .tel
• .uk
• .us
• .vote
• .xxx