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How To Protect Your Domain WHOIS Records

Every person that wishes to buy a Domain Name has to do it through a domain registrar.
Upon registration, the registrar asks for the following Information:

- Full Name
- Business Name
- Telephone Number
- Home/Work Address
- E-Mail Address

Almost every registrar will verify in one way or another that all of the details you provided are real, though there are a few that will allow you to use false details.
You can use DomainTools to search for any domain’s WHOIS Records

How can I protect my WHOIS Information?

There are service providers that does exactly that.
These service providers uses its details to register YOUR domain name. Meaning, their information will be in the domain WHOIS information and not yours. These service providers will hold your details confidently at their database.

Lately, some domain registrars made agreements with some of these service providers so customers of the registrar could immediately hide their WHOIS information upon registration (additional fee is sometimes required).

The following companies offers its customers to hide their WHOIS information under their name:
Contactprivacy - Hiding approximately 432,197 Domain Names
WhoisGuard - Hiding approximately 326,912 Domain Names

These two are the largest companies I found providing such a service (If you know more, please let me know).