Also known as “Privacy Protection” This is a term involved with domain name registration. And it literally means you domain name registration details are kept private or in other words your personal details such as your name, home/ office address, email address and phone numbers are not displayed in public data base. If I may define “private registration” in another way, it means, Implementation of appropriate safeguard measures to ensure the security and confidentiality of WHOIS data records, as well as to protect the WHOIS records against threats or identity theft that could result in substantial embarrassment, harm, inconvenience, or unfairness to any person.
I highly recommend you make your domain name "private". This keeps your name and email address out of the domain name databases on the web, and will help keep you from getting so much junk mail delivered to your inbox. This will be an option to select when you register your domain.
The benefits of making a domain name registration into a fully secured private registration
Once you've registered your name, you'll receive an email confirmation that includes information on how to access your account. Please keep this email in a safe place as you may need to reference it again.
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