As you may know, it's possible to use the "WHOIS" system to look up the name, postal address, telephone number and e-mail address of any domain name owner using Web sites such as Uwhois.com.
We strongly dislike this system for privacy reasons. However, like all domain name registration companies, we are legally required to provide valid contact information for each domain name owner. That's where our WHOIS privacy service comes in.
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Domain names registered with Tiger Technologies include free WHOIS privacy protection. To increase your privacy, we can act as a forwarding service for you, allowing the WHOIS information to show contact details that are valid ways to reach you (and which therefore meet the legal requirement that we publish your contact information), but which are less revealing. Specifically:
This system gives you privacy protection against junk mail, sales calls, and spammers. We'll discard junk postal mail (including most non-registered mail) sent to our post office box, we'll tell telemarketers you're not interested, and we'll apply our strongest spam filtering to the forwarding e-mail address. We will forward any registered postal mail or non-marketing phone messages we receive, and our mail servers will forward non-spam e-mail to you.
Although this system enhances your privacy, your rights are still protected:
There is no extra charge for WHOIS privacy, even though many other domain registration companies charge a substantial annual fee for similar services.
The privacy system provides excellent protection against unwanted marketing and spam. It also provides good protection against casual strangers viewing your personal contact details. However, we should emphasize that it isn't foolproof. In particular, we may release your direct contact information to parties who have a legitimate need to contact you for legal reasons (such as people alleging copyright or trademark violations). We may also disable the privacy feature if we receive reasonable allegations that you have violated our Terms of Service.
In addition, WHOIS privacy may not be available for domain names ending in .us due to legal restrictions from the United States Department of Commerce, which sets the requirements for all .us domain names.
Finally, WHOIS privacy was not enabled by default for some accounts opened before March 2004. If this applies to you, you can use your account management control panel to turn it on.
If you are extremely concerned about the privacy of your personal information, you may wish to use a post office box address or other non-revealing information, such as a work address and phone number, to make sure that more personal contact information is never revealed under any circumstances.
(We do require that you provide us with valid contact information so we can forward legal notices and other important messages to you. We also need to be able to contact you if there is a problem with your account. Please do not provide us with false contact information, or your account may be suspended and your domain name registration canceled.)
Some customers may want their direct contact information displayed in the WHOIS records. For example, some people may be concerned that legal notices sent to their WHOIS contact address could be delayed in the forwarding process.
If you wish to have your direct contact information displayed in the WHOIS records, you can use your account management control panel to do so: