Public to Private Domain Name

[S928]

Currently, I own a few domain names that were purchased a few years ago. When the purchases were made, I elected to keep my information public to save a few bucks. Now, it's time to starting building up the sites.

How can I hide my info as the domain owner and make it private? Hopefully, it's an easy process? It would stink to have people know where I live. Advice welcomed.

 

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[splok]

Some (most/all?) registrars offer domain privacy services that list the domains as registered by a proxy service. It's fairly cheap, though the cost varies based on the registrar. If yours doesn't have it, you can transfer the domains to one that does. However, your info may still be visible in the Whois historical data.

 

[OnlineGodfather]

Ask the support where you bought the doman name, they will tell you whats the net step and how to do it.

 

[Mrs. BRKb]

At several registrars you can, quire often, get privacy included w/o an extra charge. See if places like Namecheap, name.com, internet.bs have that offer right now.

(My 2 cents- stay away from 1&1, regardless of the offer.)

 

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[FastNAwesome]

Currently, I own a few domain names that were purchased a few years ago. When the purchases were made, I elected to keep my information public to save a few bucks. Now, it's time to starting building up the sites.
How can I hide my info as the domain owner and make it private? Hopefully, it's an easy process? It would stink to have people know where I live. Advice welcomed.

While domain privacy is offered by many registrars, there are 2 different ways it's done.

One way is where the privacy service registers domain in their name. So on whois lookup you'll just see that it's a private domain. Downside to this is that technically they control the domain. It's registered to their name not yours.

Another way is where domain is registered to your name. Your address and other contact info are hidden, but your name isn't. Dynadot for example offers this kind of privacy.

 

[S928]

Awesome. Thanks to all who responded. Now, I will contact GD to see what needs to be done to make my domains private.