: Do I need to move hosts to get whois privacy -- 1and1 doesn't offer private registration I recently bought a ‘.com’ domain name from 1and1, in the UK. The whois information lists my home

@Courtney195

I use 1&1 for some of my domains, and they do offer whois privacy protection. As stated by @w3dk , it may be through a third-party service. However there are some domain extensions like .uk or .us that do not allow whois privacy or proxies, but those rules are set by ICANN and/or the countries involved, and not by the registrar.

Personally, I only use 1&1 to register names for cheap or in bulk, until I'm read to host, and then I switch to another host and reregister with them. If you are looking for a reputable host and registrar in your country, "123-reg" claims to be #1 in the UK, and that you retain ownership of domains using their privacy service, but everything I've read about domain privacy in general states that the proxy owns the domain.

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@Yeniel560

No. The whois privacy service has to be provided by your registrar, because the registrar is the only one that can change the Whois information for your domain.

If 1and1 is not offering the service to you, then you can't use it. The only way is to move to a registrar that offers such service.

Please note there is a difference between the registrar and hosting provider. The former is the one that registers and manage your domain, the latter is the provider of the web hosting.

They may match, but this is not mandatory. You can register your domain with FooRegistrar and host your domain on Heroku, or another platform.

The whois service has to be provided by your registrar, in this game the hosting provider has nothing to do.

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