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Question: What is Private Registration?

This question relates to category Domain Names

Answer:

Private Registration protects Domain Name owners from;
  • Domain-related spam
  • Identity theft and fraud
  • Harassers, stalkers, and data miners
  • Unwanted business identity disclosure (moonlighting / conducting a side business)
  • Privacy intrusions
Domain Name Registrants are listed in a central public database which anyone can access. ICANN, the international governing body for domain names, requires every Domain Registrar to maintain a publicly accessible "WHOIS" database displaying all contact information for all domain names registered.

What this means is that your business contact details are viewable by any person who seeks information about you. Whilst for most businesses this is not a problem as businesses are likely to trade in an open and transparent manner, the domain database does expose businesses to unwanted spam email and junk postal mail.

To over come this, Redalto Communications offers a "Private Registration" service.

How does it work?

We update your public domain name registration contact details in the "Whois" database, with Redalto's business contact details. This means we receive all communications related to your domain on your behalf. We then sort and filter any inbound communication related to your domain name and forward only email and post that is relevant to you. This is a free service for any domain names registered through Redalto Communications.

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  • Author: Redalto Support Team
  • Created on: 22 Nov 2006
  • Views: 3842
  • Last modified: 04 Feb 2008

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