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Domain Privacy & Privacy+

Protect your identity. Control how you're contacted.

  • Stay private
  • Reduce unwanted communications
  • Stay reachable

Why you need domain privacy protection
and expiry protection


Replace your public identity

Domain Privacy replaces your registrant information with Webnames Privacy Service information in supported registry and RDAP records, providing an additional layer of separation between your identity and publicly available registration data.

Control how you're contacted

Communications are routed through the Privacy Registrant Contact Form or, with Privacy+, an optional anonymous forwarding address. Stay reachable without exposing your personal email address.

Reduce spam and abuse

Privacy Services help reduce spam, automated solicitation, unwanted communications, and contact-information harvesting while preserving legitimate contactability.

Protect against accidental expiry

Couple Domain Expiry Protection with Domain Privacy+, which helps prevent accidental domain loss caused by failed renewals, expired payment methods, or other renewal issues.

Learn about Expiry Protection.

Protect Your Registrant Information

Registration data publication rules vary by registry. Domain Privacy helps reduce public exposure of registrant information for Organizations and minimizes the distribution of personal information for Individuals.

RDAP/WHOIS data without Webnames Privacy

Unprotected
  • Registrant Name: Example Registrant
  • Registrant Organization: Example Corporation
  • Registrant Address: 123 Example Street
  • Registrant City: Vancouver
  • Registrant Province: BC
  • Registrant Postal Code: V1V 1V1
  • Registrant Country: CA
  • Registrant Phone: +1.604.555.1234
  • Registrant Email: admin@example.com

RDAP/WHOIS data with Webnames Privacy

Protected
  • Registrant Name: Webnames Private
  • Registrant Organization: Webnames Privacy Service
  • Registrant Address: Webnames Privacy Service
  • Registrant City: Coquitlam
  • Registrant Province: BC
  • Registrant Postal Code: V3B 6B4
  • Registrant Country: CA
  • Registrant Phone: +1.604.633.1142
  • Registrant Email: Privacy Registrant Contact Form


Note: Individual Registrants receive certain privacy protections by default which prevent personal information from being published through RDAP.



Why Add Domain Privacy?

Domain Privacy replaces registrant information with Webnames Privacy Service information, helping reduce unwanted communications while supporting data-minimization, privacy, and governance objectives. Domain Privacy+ adds optional anonymous email forwarding and Domain Expiry Protection for even greater protection and convenience.

Frequently Asked Questions

Some registries, such as CIRA for .CA domain names registered to Individual Registrants, provide privacy protection at the registry level. In these cases, registrant information is not publicly displayed through RDAP.

Domain Privacy provides an additional layer of protection by replacing registrant information with Webnames Privacy Service information in supported registry and RDAP records. This reduces the amount of registrant information transmitted to, stored by, and processed by third parties while helping minimize your overall data footprint.

These benefits may be valuable to both Individual and Organizational Registrants.

No. Domain Privacy and Domain Privacy+ only affect how registration information is published and how communications are managed. You remain the registrant and retain full ownership and control of your domain name.

Domain Privacy replaces registrant information with Webnames Privacy Service information and manages communications through the Privacy Registrant Contact Form.

Domain Privacy+ includes all Domain Privacy features and adds optional anonymous email forwarding through a Privacy+ email address. Privacy+ also includes Domain Expiry Protection.

Depending on the domain extension and privacy service configuration, communications may be facilitated through a Registrant Contact Form, a Privacy Registrant Contact Form, or a Privacy+ forwarding address.

These mechanisms allow legitimate parties to communicate with you without exposing your personal contact information.

No. While Individual Registrants may already receive privacy protections through certain registries and registration policies, Organizational Registrants often publish significantly more registration information through RDAP.

Domain Privacy can help reduce public exposure for both Individuals and Organizations by replacing registrant information with Webnames Privacy Service information where supported.

Organizations frequently use Domain Privacy to support privacy, governance, security, and data-minimization objectives across their domain portfolios.

Organizations often publish registrant contact information through RDAP, including business email addresses and other contact details. This information can be harvested for unsolicited sales, marketing, and other unwanted communications.

Domain Privacy replaces registrant information with Webnames Privacy Service information in supported registry and RDAP records, helping reduce public exposure while simplifying how domain-related communications are managed.

Many businesses also choose Domain Privacy as part of a broader privacy, governance, risk-management, and data-minimization strategy.

Not always. For supported domain extensions, Domain Privacy substitutes Webnames Privacy Service information for registrant information before registration data is transmitted to the registry.

This helps minimize the number of organizations that store and process your personal information and can be an important consideration when registering domain names under international country-code domain extensions.

Many customers choose Domain Privacy as part of a broader privacy strategy that emphasizes data minimization and greater control over where personal information is stored.

No. Registry policies vary significantly between domain extensions. Many country-code domain extensions (ccTLDs) operate under their own privacy, registration, and data-handling rules, while most generic domain extensions (gTLDs) follow ICANN requirements.

Domain Privacy helps provide a more consistent privacy experience across supported domain extensions by replacing registrant information with Webnames Privacy Service information wherever supported.

*Domain Privacy is applied at the registrant profile level; therefore all eligible domains associated with the same registrant profile will receive the service.
**Domain Privacy availability varies by domain extension and registry policy. Certain extensions may not support privacy services.
†Domain Privacy+ includes Domain Privacy, optional anonymous email forwarding for supported domain extensions, and Domain Expiry Protection.


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