The online space has seen an enormous growth in the past few years, and today, mostly everyone owns a domain name. When you register a domain name, you are obliged to provide personal information as the domain name owner. This information is publicly available once your domain name goes live. This is where Privacy Protect comes in to play.

1. Introduction
Protect Your Online Identity
Using BigRock.com‘s Privacy Protection service

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Protect Your Online Identity
The online space has seen an enormous growth in the past
few years, and today, mostly everyone owns a domain name.
When you register a domain name, you are obliged to provide
personal information as the domain name owner. This
information is publicly available once your domain name goes
live. This is where Privacy Protect comes in to play.
Privacy Protect is a WHOIS privacy service which is used to
protect confidential information of domain owners. This
protects the registrant from having their personal contact
information displayed to the public. Whenever you register a
domain your contact information associated with that domain
is displayed in the WHOIS database.
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What is Privacy Protect?
• Privacy Protect is a WHOIS privacy service which is used to
protect confidential information of domain owners.
• This is where Privacy Protect comes in to play.
• If your domain has privacy protection services then your
personal contact details will not be displayed in the public
WHOIS database.
• Domain privacy helps protect you primarily against spammers
or identity thieves who would use your personal information
for personal gain or unsolicited purposes.
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How does Privacy Protect work?
When you enable Privacy Protection on a domain name, BigRock
replaces all your publicly visible contact details with alternate contact
information, so that when a WHOIS query is performed on the domain,
an alternate mailing address, email address and phone number are
displayed.
Requests to view your information are directly sent to you (the domain
owner) and you can decide whether you would want to share your
details or not.
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Let’s take the example of BigRock.com to
show you how Privacy Protect works
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Before Privacy Protect is activated
•When you register a domain name, you are obliged to provide
•This information is publicly available once your domain name
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After Privacy Protect is activated
The contact details are replaced and Requests to view your
information are directly sent to you (the domain owner) and you can
decide whether you would want to share your details or not.
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How to enable Privacy Protect for your domain?
1. Login to your Control Panel, search for the domain name and
proceed to the Order Information view.
2. Click the Privacy Protection link
3. Here you may either enable/disable Privacy Protection:
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How to enable Privacy Protect for your domain?
To Enable Privacy Protection: Select the Enable radio button.
If Privacy Protection has been disabled for your domain name
by BigRock.com and you have not been provided the option to
enable it, then you would only see the reason we have
disabled it. Contact our Support Team at
http://support.bigrock.com to know more.
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How to disable Privacy Protect for your domain?
* To Disable Privacy Protection: Select the Disable radio
button.
4. Click the Update Privacy Protection Status link
BigRock does it’s best to ensure that your data remains safe
and away from the public eye. You can read up more on our
Privacy Policies here –
http://manage.bigrock.com/kb/servlet/KBServlet/faq1205.html
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11. Thank You