Domain Name ID Protection is privacy protection.
The reason you need it is all domain names ‘domain name record’ is a public record. All it requires is to use any “Whois” service to look up the domain name record on for any domain name on the record.
| Without ID Protection Registrant Contact (legal owner of Domain Name): John P Doe johnp@doe.com 123 My Street Name My City, State Zip Code United States (My) Phone Number |
With ID Protection Registrant Contact (legal owner of Domain Name): PrivacyProtect.org Domain Admin contact@privacyprotect.org ID#00000, PO Box 16 Nobby Beach, QLD 4218 AU Tel. +45.36946676 |
Thus this exposes your name, address, email and phone number to marketing firms, scammers, spammers, and other type of fraudsters.
Personal use of ID Protection – We recommend using ID Protection on all personal domain names that will allow them (see list of domains below that do not allow ID Protection).
Business use of ID Protection – We recommend using ID Protection even on your business domain names to protect your information from being easily harvested. However if you plan on using ID Protection on your business domain name make sure to have a very good about us or contact us page, that has more than just a contact email address and form. We suggest you supply a phone number and regular mailing address and other means of contacting to build that trust factor with your internet customers.
ID Protection is not available on all domain names. The following domain names you can not use privacy protection: .US, .CA, .AM, .ASIA, .DE, .EU, .FM, .IN, .IT, .JOBS, .MS, .NU, .SE, .TC, .TK, .TW, .TEL, .UK.COM, .US.COM