Hide your details with WHOIS privacy
What the public record shows, what privacy replaces it with, and the extensions where the registry decides instead of you.
Updated 02 Sept 2026
Register a domain and your name, address, telephone number and email address go into a public record anyone can query. Privacy replaces those details with a forwarding address, so the name stays yours and the contact details stop being a mailing list.
Turning it on
Where it is not available
Nineteen of the extensions we sell leave this to registry policy rather than to you, and they are mostly the country ones: .bd, .com.bd, .net.bd, .org.bd, .uk, .co.uk, .org.uk, .me.uk, .nz and its second levels, .au, .co.za, .ca.in, .cl, .fr, .id and .ph.
What people see instead
A lookup returns generic contact details rather than yours. Anyone who genuinely needs to reach you still can: mail to the published address is relayed through a form that passes the message to whichever contact it was addressed to.
Two things stop working, and it is better to know now than to wonder later. Post and couriers sent to the published address are not accepted, and a caller is told to write instead. If you need a public postal address — because customers post you things — privacy is the wrong tool and a registered office address is the right one.
Does privacy hide the domain from a search?
No. The name, its nameservers, its registrar and its dates stay public, because that is what makes the naming system work. Only the personal details are replaced. Anyone can still see the name exists and who registered it through.
Will privacy stop the spam I already get?
Not the mail already sent to a harvested address, but it stops the harvesting. The volume falls off over months rather than overnight, and it never falls to nothing — a public record is only one of the ways an address gets on a list.