Your Shield Against Spam and Identity Theft
Protects your personal information online
Reduces spam to your inbox
Shields you 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
Why Every Domain Needs ID Protect
In America alone, there are an estimated 9 million cases of identity theft each year¹ and 3 trillion² spam emails sent each year. Spammers and thieves can get your information through your domain name’s public record. ID Protect keeps your information safe by privatizing your domain’s entry in public records.
ID Protect
Get rid of every trace of your personal information
$7.95 / yr
Yearly Subscription Service
Blocks Spam
Your contact details are kept out of the hands of spammers, so you get less spam.
Keeps You Safe
ID Protect keeps your information private,
so identity thieves can’t find you.
Emails That Matter
Legitimate emails such as purchase offers for your domain are still forwarded to you.
ICANN Compliant
ID Protect follows rules set out by ICANN, the governing body for domain names.
ID Protect FAQs
Here is a list of frequently asked questions and their corresponding responses regarding various aspects of ID Protect.
International rules require that valid contact information—known as Whois—is available for every domain name. ID Protect cloaks your identity and provides proxy contact information in the Whois.
ID Protect also reduces spam. In your cloaked Whois information, we provide a proxy email address that changes several times a year. We forward email sent to the proxy address, but when the proxy address changes, spam sent to the old address bounces.
International rules require that valid contact information be provided for all domain names, and that it be accessible worldwide. ID Protect provides valid contact information that satisfies the international requirements without exposing your personal contact information to worldwide scrutiny.
Domain name Whois displays name, address, and email address. Anyone anywhere can search the Whois database through any search engine and many other web sites.
ID Protect provides proxy information instead of your personal contact information. Parties who want to contact you use the proxy information, and we forward to you.
Domain name Whois is a principal source of email addresses for spammers. If your domain name has ID Protect, we change the Whois email address several times a year. Spammers harvest and use one Whois email address, but once we change it that source of spam is cut off.
No. The domain must be registered with us in order to use ID Protect with our hosting plans.
ID Protect can be purchased for the following TLDs: com, net, org, biz, info, name, tv, cc, me
The .us Registry requires that .us domain names have actual identity and contact information, rather than forwarding information.
Yes. Log in, hover on “My Account” and click “Settings”. Click “General Settings”. On the “default options” tab, select the “Add ID Protect to all new registrations” check box, and if you wish, the “Attempt to auto renew” check box. Click “save changes”.
For mail which does not appear to be unsolicited commercial mail, the Whois Privacy Protection Service may either forward the mail to you or fax a page of the communication. The Service will not forward junk mail, nor will it forward mail if it becomes apparent that you provided the Whois Privacy Protection address to third parties.
To prove ownership of your domain, temporarily disable ID Protect and then ask the verifying party to confirm whois registration details at whois.enom.com.
To disable ID Protect, log in and click “My Account”. Click “Registered Domains”. Click the domain for which you want to disable ID Protect. Click “Contact Information”. Click “Edit your ID Protect settings”. Select “Unprotected” and click “save changes”.
Once the ownership verification is complete, you can turn the ID Protect service back on through your domain control panel.