Protecting Your Domain contact information
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.
October 1, 2007 at 12:37 pm
Thank you so much for this feature! I it is important to me! I see it does not do addresses though. sigh.
October 4, 2007 at 12:25 am
That’s good news, well done. Just one thing, how long does it take to come into effect?
To Hummie; What makes you say that? All contact info is replaced, the example shows that.
October 4, 2007 at 9:07 am
According to the example pictured in the post, it DOES to addresses. On the left it shows the UNPROTECTED domain’s listing giving the address, but on the right it shows the PROTECTED domain’s listing giving ContactPrivacy’s Toronto address instead. Am I reading this wrong or did I misunderstand your comment, Hummie? It’s too bad this feature wasn’t available when I setup my Homestead account. It’s too late to protect my information from the spammers who already got it.
October 20, 2007 at 5:42 am
This is great! Homestead is slowly adding more features month by month and they are good!
November 13, 2007 at 2:19 pm
MORE IS COMING! ITS GETING GOOD
November 21, 2007 at 1:49 pm
This will be great. Not that im going to pay 10
December 27, 2007 at 12:40 am
I would like to know how I can delete a domain name or disable it if I dont need it anymore??
December 29, 2007 at 4:05 am
If you’d like to delete a domain name or disable it, all you need to do is contact our customer support group. You can either create a Help Ticket by logging in to the Help Center or contact a specialist via phone at 1-800-710-1998.