How can I remove my email address on the whois look-up?

Discussion in 'Domain Names' started by irule272, Jul 2, 2009.

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    Hello I bought a domain in GoDaddy and I tried to whois lookup it in google and I'm surprised my name and contact information are there. How can I remove it? especially my e-mail address.

    Thanks!
     
    irule272, Jul 2, 2009 IP
  2. hiteshb

    hiteshb Well-Known Member

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    Use Whois Protection (or Privacy Protection). This will hide your info from public.
     
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  3. irule272

    irule272 Well-Known Member

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    hiteshb? where can I find it under my cp in godaddy? It says there that I need to purchase the privacy thing, but man I don't want to pay for it I mean it should have been added as a feature if you buy domai nfrom them.


    Any other way?
     
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  4. hiteshb

    hiteshb Well-Known Member

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    Some provide free privacy tool and one of them is resellerclub. I am not using godaddy, and you might need to pay to use privacy whois guard.

    Godaddy charge 9$ for Privacy unless you register 5 domains in one order. http://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/dbp/landing.asp
     
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  5. munches

    munches Banned

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    Why not set up a gmail address and use that for contact info, you can forward any messages and the spam filters will take care of a lot of spam. Or next time register at namecheap.com and get free whoisguard or at name.com and get free privacy control.
     
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    webcosmo Notable Member

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    You can make it private registration, that way nobody would see your name or contact info.
     
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  7. irule272

    irule272 Well-Known Member

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    Yup I know. But my question is how? It sucks because you bought a domain to them and they will show all your private information to the public. Any other way?
     
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  8. munches

    munches Banned

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    Then don't use godaddy next time you register a domain, name.com has a free private whois you can switch on or off.
    You could always use make believe info, as long as you have a valid contact email you should be ok.
     
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  9. Dave Zan

    Dave Zan Well-Known Member

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    Other than using a privacy service, use another email address as others have
    said. And preferably a "secure" one like Hushmail. (despite what happened to
    Hushmail back then...)
     
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    MediaVolt Peon

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    Namecheap.com is a great reseller that has free domain privacy. When I wanted to keep my privacy with certain domains, I always go there and their domains are pretty cheap too (as their name suggests).
     
    MediaVolt, Jul 4, 2009 IP
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    jhbalaji Well-Known Member

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    You have enable whois protection mate...
     
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    ReachConnectionSolutions Peon

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    just create a new email. use google gmail and make a generic email. or just get private domain proxy
     
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    You can protect your privacy to enable whois protection but never do the false info. ICANN might delete your domain name, just for my 2 cents.
     
    kleszcz, Jul 4, 2009 IP