Building a new website is often a great investment that counts on your time and money to make especially when aiming to make that perfect site. In between, you might skip a few things to save some coins. After registering the domain name as well as purchasing web hosting, your budget might possibly have been exhausted. However, in all these, there’s one crucial thing you should never forget to include- domain privacy.

Most customers, who have registered their domain names without domain privacy, have ended up facing the problem of getting regular spam messages sent to their inboxes. They often receive pitches for marketing services and SEO as well as all types business related offers, both genuine and illegitimate. When this occurs, it’s easy for customers to assume that the registrar has given out their personal information to other third parties at a cost. If you have come across such a problem, here are some good and bad news for you. The good part of it is that a registrar will rarely sell or share your personal information with a third party without your consent. The best news is that we can solve all that by preventing these spam messages from hijacking your inbox. The bad news is that, when you don’t have domain privacy, any other third party can access your full personal details. However, you don’t have to worry, it can be fixed.

Most domain extensions offer domain privacy but there’s an option to leave it. As a result, most people don’t take it seriously and often opt out of it. The bare truth is that your information ought to be protected from the public. ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) recommends that your details be made available publicly on the WHOIS database. This is how the third parties access your vital personal information. They will keep sending you tempting messages which might be illegitimate. These scammers have reasons for doing all these; they want to earn money from you, get personal information, rob your awesome website, or even inject your computer with destructive and disturbing malware.

Don’t fall into their useless traps. You can keep them off before they even start accessing your domain. If your domain has domain privacy, then it cannot be available on WHOIS database. Any attempt by the third parties to access your information will be prevented instantly; the registrar info will show up instead.

Because Privacy hides your personal information, it protects you from:

• Domain-related spam
• The selling of your personal information
• Junk mail and sales calls
• Identity theft and fraud
• Stalkers and harassers
  A third party taking ownership of your domain through phishing, fake offers, and hidden ownership clauses found in the fine print of certain offers/deals

In the case where you have a registered domain name that lacks privacy, you don’t have to work too much to fix it. You just need to access the marketplace and on the control panel, search under domain services section. And in a case you’re registering a new domain name, don’t forget to include the privacy option that pops up in most domain extensions. Ensure that you keep this in your cart to keep your information protected.

Domain privacy is an optional purchase. However, you shouldn’t compromise your privacy with anything. Instead, you should consider protecting your personal information and your website at large. Of course, there are particular cases where your information is much better when it’s made available to the public. Additionally, other domain extensions like the geo-domains will require you to expose your personal information. It’s very important, however, to choose a domain extension that offers you the domain privacy option. Weigh the risks and decide on your privacy.