Enable WHOIS privacy protection on your domain

10 min Impact: medium Effort: low ✓ Manual completion

WHOIS privacy protection hides your personal contact information, name, address, phone number, from the public WHOIS database that anyone can query for any registered domain, replacing it with the registrar's proxy information instead.

Without this, your real personal address and phone number are publicly queryable by anyone, a real privacy exposure with essentially no downside to protecting against it.

How to do it

1

Check your current WHOIS privacy status

Most registrars show this directly in domain settings, and many now include it free by default.
2

Enable it if not already active

A simple setting in your registrar dashboard.
3

Verify with a public WHOIS lookup

Confirm your real information is genuinely hidden, not just that the setting shows enabled.

Common mistakes

Some business registration types or jurisdictions have specific requirements around WHOIS transparency, confirm this applies cleanly to your situation, though it is enabled by default for most standard cases.

How you will know it is done

WHOIS privacy protection is confirmed active, verified with a real public lookup.

Tools that help

WHOIS Lookup ↗

Check what information is currently publicly visible for your domain.

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