If you have a box no. do you offer FREE private domains?

[dswp]

so do you?

[Daniel]

I don't really understand this question... anyone else?

[Erik H.]

I don't ....

[Gears]

What is a private domain?

[redrat]

What is the connection between box numbers and private domains?

[WHMCS John]

I assume by private domain's the OP is referring to privacy protection?

[redrat]

Ah. So possibly he means to ask a domain registrant is allowed to opt for privacy protection if they only have a box number for an address instead of a regular one?

 

Or he might be looking for a registrar who uses an anonymous box number and also offers privacy protection as with this situation http://support.tigertech.net/whois ? EG:

Our free WHOIS privacy service

 

Domain names registered with Tiger Technologies include free WHOIS privacy protection. To increase your privacy, we can act as a forwarding service for you, allowing the WHOIS information to show contact details that are valid ways to reach you (and which therefore meet the legal requirement that we publish your contact information), but which are less revealing. Specifically:

 

• We publish our post office box address instead of your address.
  
• We publish our telephone number instead of your phone number.
  
• We publish a specially formatted e-mail address that ends in "@whois.tigertech.net" instead of your real address. The special address forwards mail to your real e-mail address.
  

This system gives you privacy protection against junk mail, sales calls, and spammers. We'll discard junk postal mail (including most non-registered mail) sent to our post office box, we'll tell most callers you prefer to be contacted only at addresses or phone numbers you post on your Web site (if any), and we'll apply our strongest spam filtering to the forwarding e-mail address. We will forward any registered postal mail or phone messages related to legal issues, and our mail servers will forward non-spam e-mail to you.

Although this system enhances your privacy, your rights are still protected:

 

• Your name (or company name, if you entered one on our forms) is still listed in the WHOIS records as the domain's legal owner, maintaining your ownership rights. Unlike some other companies, we never list ourselves as the owner; doing so can make it difficult for you to transfer your domain name.
  
• Legal notices will still reach you.
  
• Important e-mail such as domain name transfer approval notices will still reach you.
  

Edited July 12, 2009 by redrat

[dswp]

Ah, yes - that is what she meant.

 

We call it ID protect, and ppl have different names for whatever the service is - that enables you to hide your information from the Whois db.

 

So I wonder if you purchase a PO box number, so you can hide the registrant's contact information FOR FREE, and then do you charge for this service? Or do you offer it free? Or the good old fashioned way of purchasing the privacy protect, and passing it along to the client for a markup?

 

 

Thanks for answering a question that wasn't even clear!!

[redrat]

It is a pleasure. But if you look more closely, you will notice that the above quote in my post is extracted from the documentation by a company, tigertech.net, who already provide such a service as your questions describe. I also put a link to their web site. They are the top Google search result here. Hope that helps.

[easyhosting]

Different registrars have different methods, some charge, some give this free

[othellotech]

I'd *strongly* suggest you dont ...

 

To legally offer privacy-protection services to registrants you have to be ICANN acreditted, and have your scheme approved by them, and escrow the *real* registrant data.

[dswp]

I'd *strongly* suggest you dont ...

 

To legally offer privacy-protection services to registrants you have to be ICANN acreditted, and have your scheme approved by them, and escrow the *real* registrant data.

 

I knew there just HAD to be a catch - otherwise everyone would offer it as an add on.

 

Thank you!!!!