What is WHOIS Privacy Protection?

When registering a domain, ICANN requires that domain contact information such as address, phone number, and email address of all domains be publicly available through the WHOIS database. However, this policy increases spammers, email marketers, and identity theft to hold personal information through WHOIS queries. With the free domain WHOIS privacy protection risk, customer privacy has been drastically protected from the public. This helps the ICANN board to regulate domain registration and ownership.

All domain registrations with us can take advantage of our WHOIS privacy protection. However, some domains may not be eligible for WHOIS protection due to registrar regulatory restrictions.

When WHOIS privacy protection is disabled, your domain’s privacy is active, meaning the domain owner’s contact information is not viewable online and will remain with us privately. Please check below example:

GMO-Z.com WHOIS Privacy Protection sample:

Registrant Name: Whois Privacy Protection Service by onamae.com
Registrant Organization: Whois Privacy Protection Service by onamae.com
Registrant Street: 26-1 Sakuragaoka-cho
Registrant Street: Cerulean Tower 11F
Registrant City: Shibuya-ku
Registrant State/Province: Tokyo
Registrant Postal Code: 150-8512
Registrant Country: JP
Registrant Phone: +81.354562560
Registrant Email: proxy@whoisprotectservice.com