: Hiding whois information on GoDaddy registered domains I have a few domains hosted at GoDaddy, and it's posting my address, phone number, and email address on my whois results. It looks like

@Vandalay111

LOL. Why not just change your Registration info to something anonymous or fake? It doesn't have to match your official account info. Think 'outside' of the box a little ;)

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@Radia820

Name Cheap and other registrars usually offer this service free for the first year. If you are doing this for search engine reasons and you don't want to leave a footprint its best to use multiple registrars so all your sites don't look like they come from the same source.

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@Kevin317

There is no way around this. If you want to use godaddy as your registrar that's the price you have to pay for private registration. If you can get a domain name with private registration cheaper elsewhere, and cost is an issue to you then register your domain at the cheaper registrar.

From this question asked previously about entering fake information when registering your domain:


ICANN (not the domain registrar) requires that all information in your
registration be valid.

If any dispute arises (see the ICANN Uniform Domain Name Dispute
Resolution Policy rules here) you will be contacted via the means
specified in your domain registration. Notice that section 14 of
the rules is a section that defines what happens as part of a
'default' (in other words, they can't contact you): They'll
proceed with a judgement, and you won't get a say in the proceedings.

ICANN has the power to take a domain from you and give it to somebody
else.

So yes, it's important that you include valid information in your
registration information.

For a comparison of a what a private domain registration looks
like (compared to a regular domain registration) see this:
www.domainsbyproxy.com/popup/whoisexample.aspx

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