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Protect your personal information with WHOIS Privacy

Every time you register a domain name, your name, address and phone number are entered into a public database that can be viewed and used by anyone. This exposes your personal information to spammers, telemarketers and other undesired third parties.

There is a way to protect your personal information. Adgrafics WHOIS Privacy service allows you to retain your domain name without having to expose your personal information to the public.

The Whois Privacy Service may be purchased for both new and existing domain name registrations.

The Whois Privacy Service may be applied to transfers in to Tucows but will only commence when the transfer of the domain name has been completed and the registration is in the Tucows database. The Whois Privacy Service must be disabled in order to transfer a domain name registration away from Tucows. Registrations will leave the Tucows database with the Whois Information.

Here’s how it works:
• Your domain registration information, including the Administrative, Billing and Technical contacts are masked with generic information within public WHOIS databases. You still retain full ownership and control of your domain name.
• Requests to view your domain’s contact information are filtered and forwarded to you.
• You decide whether to respond.

Communications received by Tucows with respect to a particular domain name registration will be handled as follows:

• Tucows will forward to the Registrant all correspondence received by registered mail or traceable courier. This information may be opened, scanned and emailed to the Registrant. Regular postal mail will be discarded or returned to sender at Tucows’ discretion.
• Email correspondence will be forwarded according to the instructions of the Registrant as they appear in Tucows’ records.
• a voice mail message will advise all callers that inbound messages will not be accepted; calls will be directed to the contactprivacy.com web site where written messages will be forwarded according to the Registrant’s instructions.
• Tucows will only be responsible for communications to Registrants when its complete details are reflected in the Whois.

Whois and Proxy Information. Each Registrant must continue to warrant and provide that it is providing true, accurate and current Whois Information. Tucows will keep the Contact and Registrant information on file in accordance with the Registration Agreement but will include the following information in the publicly available Whois Registry:

• contactprivacy.com shall appear as the Registrant and Contacts names;
• Tucows’ postal address, and a Tucows assigned email address and telephone number shall appear on behalf of the Registrant and the Contacts;
• the primary and secondary nameservers shall be those designated by the Registrant;
• the original date of registration and the expiration of each domain name;
• Tucows will be identified as the registrar of record.

Tucows shall have the right, at its sole discretion and without liability to Reseller, its Registrant and any Contacts, to reveal Registrant and Contact Whois Information when required by law, in the good faith belief that disclosure is necessary to further determination of an alleged breach of a law, to comply with a legal process served upon Tucows, to resolve any and all third party claims including but not limited to ICANN’s or a Registry’s dispute resolution policy; to avoid financial loss or legal liability or if Tucows believes that the Registrant is using the Whois Privacy Service to conceal its involvement with illegal, illicit, objectionable or harmful activities or to transmit SPAM, viruses, worms or other harmful computer programs.

In the event that Tucows receives a formal complaint, notice of claim or UDRP, Tucows will have the right to disable the Whois Privacy Service pending final disposition of the matter.

Due to the nature of Tucows WHOIS Privacy service, emails required to be sent or received as part of the service will not be transmitted.

The WHOIS record for each domain name protected by Tucows' WHOIS Privacy Service will contain the following information, as mandated by ICANN. The service uses Tucows' mailing address, as an administrative address is required. Demo...>>>