As required by the domain name registries, each time you register a domain name, your name, address, phone number and email address are listed in a public WHOIS
WHOIS (pronounced as the phrase who is) is a query and response protocol that is widely used for querying databases that store the registered users of domain names, database.
Webnames.ca WHOIS
Webnames Privacy Service allows you to update your WHOIS record with non-personal information. When Privacy is enabled, the Administrative, Billing and Technical sections of your WHOIS record are replaced with generic Webnames Services Inc. contact information.
Our Privacy Service is applied at the Registrant A Registrant is the individual or organization that holds the right to use a specific domain name. level, and thus enabling this service once will activate privacy for all domains owned by the Registrant
Benefits of using Webnames Privacy service
- Protect yourself from spam, telemarketers, identity & domain theft. Webnames Privacy blocks more spam than any other privacy service available.
- Unlike other privacy services that only give you an email alias which spammers use to continue to send you email, with Webnames' Privacy, you receive *official correspondence only
- Most comprehensive privacy service in the industry - available for most domain extensions (.ca, .com, .net, .org, .info, .mobi, biz, .cn, .asia)
- Retain ownership and complete control of your domain
*official correspondence includes all correspondence as required by Webnames.ca to deliver as a Registrar A domain name registrar is an organization or commercial entity that manages the reservation of Internet domain names. A domain name registrar must be accredited by a generic top-level domain (gTLD) registry and/or a country code top-level domain (ccTLD) registry. The management is done in accordance with the guidelines of the designated domain name registries and to offer such services to the public. and in the provisioning of other services
Example of WHOIS data for a domain protected by Webnames Privacy. Your real contact information is obscured by the generic information illustrated in green.