If you want to hide or protect your domain information from reachable by anyone that running the WHOIS check on your domain name, then you will need to activate the domain privacy. On sign up to hostmonster, 12 months or 24 months, the domain privacy is offered for free. And you can use this to protect your primary domain for free. If you buying more domains, you can order domain privacy as well. Simple as that.
Once domain privacy is activated, public user can’t see your contact information and who the domain belong to and registered under which email address. Thus, your privacy is protected. Your domain registrar information will be display instead.
This is what wikipedia said about domain privacy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_privacy
“Domain privacy is offered by several registrars such as Go Daddy, Network Solutions, eNom and so forth. A user buys privacy from the company, who in turn replaces the user’s info in the whois with the info of a proxy service such as Domains by Proxy or Whois Privacy Protection Service.”
*Note Hostmonster free domain privacy offers end, no longer valid from 2011 and onward! Hostmonster Domain privacy now cost $9.95/year
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November 25th, 2009 at 2:16 pm
Not true. Hostmonster charges $4.95 for privacy as of October 2009.
November 30th, 2009 at 11:08 pm
hi Dave,
we checked on this just now. from hostmonster customer signup, we still seeing the free domain privacy feature.
“Use Domain Whois Privacy – $4.95 per year FREE”
This statement mean the hostmonster domain privacy price value at $4.95 per year, and its available for free.
December 3rd, 2009 at 3:13 pm
how does one contact the domain owner of a ‘privacy protected domain’ ? i dont see any way to do so.
other registrars have a special form to make one-way contact to the owner : but hostmonster says they will not forward any correspondence whatsoever, and list themselves as the domain owner in the whois (but claim not to own it).
how can one make contact in this scenario ?
(i am looking to purchase 78club.com : contact me alex _at_ quosmo _dot_ com)
December 7th, 2009 at 11:39 pm
the domain is protected with hostmonster whois protection, and hence you can’t see the owner registration details. Do contact hostmonster support in order to obtain the contact information. hostmonster support line is 866-573-4678 or
801-494-8462
December 20th, 2009 at 11:23 am
Hi, just wanted to say, I was being prompted to purchase domain privacy for a number of weeks. However, just checked and it’s gone back to the way it was on my account. woo-hoo! The free domain privacy was the biggest reason I went with HM.
August 26th, 2010 at 9:36 am
Hostmonster doesn’t have free privacy on additional domains anymore. Just the primary domain.
August 28th, 2010 at 9:12 pm
for domain name registered via hostmonster, either primary or addon domain, you can add domain privacy to it or renew its privacy protection. Refer to hostmonster domain manager under cpanel control panel for details.
January 14th, 2011 at 12:31 am
Even the primary domain doesn’t have free privacy anymore….
(either that, or it’s a deliberate attempt to confuse people and charge them nonetheless (it already shows in my billing overview))
http://helpdesk.hostmonster.com/index.php/kb/article/141
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Privacy = $9.95 Domain Privacy per domain per year.
June 29th, 2011 at 1:25 pm
Domain Privacy is NOT free, I am leaving hostmonster for this, registering a domain costs: $19.95 per year, twice as other registrars.
June 29th, 2011 at 1:30 pm
@Jason
Hostmonster does not provide free domain privacy to primary domain, just tried to create a new account and saw the fee.
For add-on domain nobody needs domain privacy, because the primary registrar (for my case, Netfirms) provides it for free normally.