: I don't know about your registrar, but I know that GoDaddy offers private registration. What happens is that it's the address of the company that handles your private registry. When correspondence

@Holmes151

I don't know about your registrar, but I know that GoDaddy offers private registration. What happens is that it's the address of the company that handles your private registry. When correspondence is sent to you, it's sent to the company and they forward it to you (so only THEY know your info.)
It works the same for email, too. So, for example, if a person wanted to contact you, they would see your email address on the whois is something like
qwertyhouiefhiw73298@privateregistrycompany.com.
The email is sent to that address and then when that address receives the email, the email is then forwarded to your account. Nifty, eh?

Sad part is that I found all that out by trying to contact a guy who had stolen content from my website. :(

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