Domain privacy, or ID Protection and how to get it

For $10 a year, you can hide the physical address, phone number and email address details that are stored for your domain. Here’s why, and how.

Contact information is collected for every domain

When you register a new domain, you are asked for three sets of contact details: registrant (owner), technical, and administrative. Even if it’s the same person each time, all three sets of information need to be included. Each set includes a name, postal address, email, and phone number.

It is important to note that providing false information is not allowed – as well as being a bad idea – and that you’re obliged to keep everything up to date.

At least some of these details are publicly accessible through a WHOIS lookup. For instance, every .nz domain’s information is available via…