Hostgator who is privacy

If your physical address is published publicly on the web, anyone who finds your website can find you in person. For businesses that can use a company headquarters as their listed location, the risk is smaller, especially if your address will be listed elsewhere around the web.

In those cases, this particular benefit may not be worth much, but the others may still be. How many times a day do you get phone calls from unidentified numbers? Spam is an unfortunate part of life.

It makes you an easy target. And while there are certainly worse things in the world than spam, who wants to spend their time deleting spam emails or fielding robo-calls? Domain privacy protection may not keep you from dealing with any spam, but it means getting a lot less of it. Having your contact information widely available gives scammers an easy way to contact you. Most eNom and Launchpad domains can be managed in your portal.

If you choose the Private option, you'll see the introductory and renewal prices for Domain Privacy beside the Save button. What is Domain Privacy? Do I need Domain Privacy? If a domain purchased from HostGator does not appear in the Customer Portal, it may be an eNom domain requiring management via Registry Rocket.

Note: Please keep in mind that the renewal of Domain Privacy is separate from the renewal of your domain name. While European customer's contact details will be masked publicly by default due to GDPR , this means also that you will not know instantly when someone is looking to contact about the domain in question. Keeping Domain Privacy on the domain will allow any inquiries to be forwarded to you. Domain Privacy adds an additional layer of protection on top for those that are protected through GDPR law.

Further details regarding this service can be found in our Domain Registration Agreement.