In this post, Sam, a Homestead Product Designer, introduces the ability to hide your domain contact information. – Rochelle
We’ve introduced a new privacy feature that’s now available to anyone with a domain managed by Homestead. As some of you probably know, whenever you register a domain name your contact information is entered into an international public database, making it available to anyone doing a simple domain search. Unfortunately, some of those doing searches are spammers and telemarketers.
To help keep your personal information out of their hands, Homestead’s new domain privacy feature can mask the contact information associated with any of your domains and replace it with information from our domain registrar, Tucows. The box below shows how enabling privacy would affect a typical domain registry entry:
The cost to enable privacy is $1/month per domain. It is now an option on every domain you register or transfer to Homestead (except for domains ending in .name), and can be enabled for current domains through the Domain Manager as shown below:
We hope you like the new domain privacy feature. It’s a pretty simple way to reduce your exposure to some of the most common internet annoyances, like spam, junk mail and unsolicited telemarketing. It can also help guard against more serious threats like fraud and identity theft, and help you retain full control and ownership of your domain name.
