What is WHOIS Privacy?

In order to reduce the ability of others to abuse the contact information in your WHOIS listing, Pair Domains offers, at no additional fee, its optional WHOIS Privacy feature. If elected by you, this service will allow us to shield your contact information in WHOIS listings. This will help to prevent or limit junk postal mail, junk email, and junk  phone calls.

Contact information for the Registrant (Owner), Administrative, Technical, and Billing Contacts will be available to the public in WHOIS. This means the name, postal address, phone number, and email address for all the contacts is public information.

If you want to hide any information from WHOIS, we offer WHOIS Privacy. Unlike many other registrars, we do not charge anything for our WHOIS Privacy service. Our WHOIS Privacy service lets you hide the postal address, phone number, and/or email address from WHOIS. You can choose which information is hidden and which information is public.

While you can hide the postal address, phone number, and email address from WHOIS, the name and organization (if an organization is set) of each contact is listed in WHOIS. If you do not want your name to appear in WHOIS, we recommend setting the Name field to be a company name or an organization name.

Postal Address Privacy

When Postal Address Privacy is selected, we list one of our postal address:

Your Name
Your Organization (if an organization is set)
 c/o PairDomains.com Whois Privacy
2403 Sidney Street, Suite 210
Pittsburgh, PA 15203

Please Note: Postal Address Privacy is not available on .us or .uk domains. The .us registry forbids Postal Address Privacy services. The .uk registry does not display contact information in WHOIS, so the service is not necessary.

Phone Privacy

When Phone Privacy is selected, we list one of our telephone numbers for the number:

+1.4123257437

When somebody calls that number, a message is played instructing the caller to contact the domain owner via email.

Please Note: Phone Privacy is not available on .us or .uk domains. The .us registry forbids Phone Privacy services. The .uk registry does not display contact information in WHOIS, so the service is not necessary.

Email Privacy

When Email Privacy is selected, your contact email address will be replaced by 12 random characters characters@example.com, where “example.com” is one of four rotating Pair Domains registered domains. These email addresses will change every seven days. Each random email address will still work for three days after a new email address has been posted. Email sent to the randomly generated email addresses will be forwarded to the real email address that is listed in the Domain Name Management System. You will still receive email and cut down on junk email sent to your contact email addresses.

Please Note: Email Privacy is not available for .uk domains. The .uk registry does not display contact information in WHOIS, so the service is not necessary.

.uk Privacy

The .uk registry does not display contact information in WHOIS. Because of this, Privacy is not needed for .uk domains.