How to Enable Domain Privacy

According to the ICANN regulation, the group of people who solely focus on domains and all the stuff about them, the contact information for a domain must be submitted when you purchase a domain name. This information is made publicly available through a WHOIS Directory. All domain owners (registrar) are required to keep accurate, current, and valid personal or business contact information for their domain. But let's say you don't want your personal contact information for your domain accessible to everyone on the World Wide Web. In order to make ICANN happy by providing accurate contact information and not allowing your personal contact information to be online, you can simply purchase Domain Privacy to appease everyone.

Here are the topics discussed in this article.

• What is Domain Privacy + Protection ⤵
• How to Manage Domain Privacy + Protection ⤵
• Related Articles ⤵

What is Domain Privacy + Protection?

Domain Privacy + Protection is a service that allows you to keep your personal and business contact information, such as your name, address, email, and phone number, private from prying eyes while still ensuring that you list valid contact information for your domain. With the "Protection" feature, it also provides the following additional functionalities:

• Daily malware scanning
• Blacklist monitoring
• SMS domain alerts

Please visit the following article to learn more about the Domain Privacy + Protection's features and how to add the service to your HostGator account.

• WHOIS Information & Domain Privacy

How to Manage Domain Privacy + Protection

Here are the steps to managing your Domain Privacy + Protection within your Customer Portal.

To enable or disable Domain Privacy + Protection:

1. Within your Customer Portal's domain management page, you'll see the Domain Overview section right away. Under this section, the status of your domain will be displayed, including Privacy + Protection.

   

2. Scroll down to the Domain Contacts section and click the TURN ON/TURN OFF button under Domain Privacy + Protection to enable or disable this feature.

   

To manage the SMS notification and malware scanning functionalities: 

1. Within your Customer Portal's domain management page, scroll down to the Domain Security section.

   

2. Click the TURN ON or TURN OFF button for SMS Security Alerts and SiteLock Lite to enable or disable these features.

   

To renew your Domain Privacy + Protection:

Domain Privacy + Protection renews automatically by default unless you turn off its Auto-Renew feature within the Renewal Center. Please note that renewing this service is different from renewing your domain name or hosting plan.

Check out the following article to learn how to renew your Domain Privacy + Protection within the Renewal Center.

• Customer Portal - How to use the Renewal Center

Related Articles

• Domain Expiration Protection - If you're looking for more information about our Domain Expiration Protection service, please visit this article.
• Domain How-To's - You may visit our go-to articles for domain management.
• Domain Privacy Protection for .us Domains - This article explains why you can't add privacy protection to your .us domain.
• Updating WHOIS Information - Learn how to update your domain contact information (WHOIS) within your Customer Portal.
• WHOIS Information & Domain Privacy - This article discusses WHOIS and how to purchase Domain Privacy + Protection for your domain.
• Why Update Your WHOIS Information - For more information about why it's important to keep your WHOIS info updated, please visit this article.