ID Protection from Newtek
So you’ve finally registered that domain. Congratulations on taking the formative steps toward online domination, the world will soon be yours!
But did you know that anytime you register a domain, your personal information is exposed 24 hours a day? Your name. Your address. Your phone number. Your email. It’s all published online for anyone to see, as mandated by the international governing body for domain names known as ICANN. ICANN requires every domain registrar to maintain a publicly viewable database (known as ‘WHOIS’) that displays personal contact information for every single domain that is registered. This exposes your information to spammers, scammers, telemarketers, and other undesired third parties.
Go on, check it out for yourself: http://whois.domaintools.com/.
The good news is that most registrars offer some sort of domain concealment service that resolves this privacy issue by displaying company information rather than your own personal data, and completely shielding your info from public domain lookups.
Sounds nice, but you may be asking yourself if you really need it.
The simple answer is no. As a website owner, you are not required to purchase domain privacy. However, the service offers a number of significant benefits. Even if you have absolutely nothing to hide, domain privacy protection can help control spam and junk mail, reduce unwanted solicitations, hide your website from competitors doing market research, better protect you from identity thieves, prevent firms from capturing your information (likely to resell to others), and helps you to avoid cyber stalkers and frauds.
Think about it this way: almost anyone has the ability to access the internet, meaning almost anyone could potentially have access to your mailing address, phone number, or email address. Crazy Larry doesn’t like your blog about prenatal healthcare; he might be interested in contacting you to share his creepy opinions. No thanks.
At Newtek, we do what we can to provide extra tools to help protect our customers and their personal information. One of the best features we offer for online security is Newtek’s Domain Privacy. When you enable privacy protection on a domain name, we replace all your publicly visible contact details with alternate contact information. You retain full ownership and complete control over the domain. If you already host your site with Newtek, you can enable domain privacy simply by visiting your ‘Manage Newtek’ page.
We believe that all website owners will be better off for making a small investment in privacy. Domain ID protection is available not only at signup, but can be added to any of your existing domains at any time. Simply log into your http://manage.newtekwebhosting.com account to add privacy protection and start protecting your identity immediately. This service is simple, extremely affordable, and well worth the investment.
Domain Privacy helps protect you from:
Unwanted spam and junk mail
Identity theft
Fraud and scams
Stalkers
Domain name poachers
Solicitation
Unintended identity disclosure
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