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Question:
How do I know if PrivateWhois is working? |
1. You can check your WHOIS record for your domain
name at:
http://hostsite.com/cgi-bin/whois.cgi
2. By default, your email address is protected,
while your postal address is not.
Your email address should show:
email-protected@private-whois.com
Your email address will not show up at all.
3. You can enable postal address protection through
your
Account Manager.
Simply login, click on "domain accounts," select the domain
you want to manage,
and choose "Change PrivateWhois Settings" and check the box
to enable "address protection."
If postal address protection is working, the WHOIS lookup
will no longer show your address.
Your postal address will be replaced with ours.
4. We do not enable address protection by default
for a very good reason.
By providing "postal address protection" we have the extra
responsibility of manually forwarding to you any
important postal mail addressed to you over concerns of your
domain name. Because of this,
it becomes up to us to judge whether any postal mail coming
to us is important enough
to warrant us forwarding it over to your real postal address
that we have on file.
This entire process entails the following:
A. For postal mail that comes into our mailbox, we
require unlimited permission from you to allow us to
open, delete, or destroy any incoming
postal mail addressed to you based on our own
criteria.
For example, if you have postal
address protection enabled here, any marketer who
tries to data-mines
the postal address listed in your
WHOIS domain record will end up with getting our
postal mail instead.
This means we will end up with all
the advertisement that was meant for you. You
wouldn't get any of it,
because we will figure out that this
is advertisement and nothing important. In this
case,
we will not forward the postal mail
to you because it is not deemed as important or
vital. Instead,
we'll just destroy the
advertisements. However, for any mail that we judge
as important,
we will forward it to you.
B. By using our "postal address protection" feature,
you agree to grant us the permission as
specified in part A. |
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