1. Prevents spam & other unsolicited emails
2. Receive notifications via SMS about any important changes to your domains registered at FastComet
3. Avoiding unwanted telephone calls & postal mails
4. Protection against identity theft or fraudulent domain transfers
5. Prevents Malware & SEO blacklisting
6. Competitors won’t be able to look up which domain names you have registered with FastComet
What is FastComet’s Domain Privacy Protection?
Every domain name has public information tied to it about the owner of the domain. The name, email address, phone number, and even home address of the owner is publicly available online in the WHOIS database. The laws, rules, and regulations governing the domain names require every domain holder to disclose all their contact details but most of them wouldn’t really want their personal contact realted information to be made available to the general public especially where any spammers, competitors or hackers will be able to view it.
FastComet’s optional add-on service known as Domain Privacy (ID Protect) shields your personal contact information from the public (such as the spammers, junk email bots, hackers and so on) via the WHOIS database. Instead, this FastComet extra add-on replaces your private information with generic FastComet’s FastDomain contact information.
This way you will still be the owner of your domain name registered at FastComet with your personal contact information kept safely without making it publicly available. Furthermore, it protects you against the telemarketers and data mining organizations by preventing your domain name ownership details from being accessible publicly.
Do You Really Need FastComet’s Domain Privacy (ID Protect) Add-on?
SHORT ANSWER: Purchasing FastComet Extras such as the Domain Privacy (ID Protect) add-on is optional yet the cost of this feature is only $3.95 which is much cheaper than most of the other domain registrars.
It depends whether you take privacy very seriously or the domain you registered at FastComet is just your hobby site. Usually, many purchase this Domain Privacy (ID Protect) add-on for the extra layer of privacy and many others wish to ignore it mainly because it increases the cost of web hosting. Also, you have the option of adding it to your FastComet shopping cart anytime in the future as well.
Do you need other Extras of FastComet such as the Search Engine Submission, SEO Audit, and Google SiteMap tool?
No! While the FastComet Domain privacy (ID Protect) add-on might be a necessity, other FastComet Extras such as the Search Engine Submission ($5.95 one-time fee), Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Audit ($9.95 one-time fee), and Google SiteMap ($14.95 one-time fee) are not really needed. Instead, it would increase your web hosting bill with you paying up to $30.85 more on some unnecessary FastComet extras.
GDPR Domain Masking by FastComet Domains
While the contact information of FastComet’s European customers will get masked publicly (by default due to the GDPR rules for domains) which means that you wouldn’t be able to instantly know when someone is looking to contact you regarding the domain in question. Using FastComet’s Domain Privacy Protection (ID Protect) add-on will allow any such inquiries to get forwarded directly to you. Furthermore, FastComet’s Domain Privacy feature adds an extra layer of protection on top even for those whose domains are protected via the GDPR law.
WHOIS Domain Privacy Availability for the Domain Names registered at FastComet
Not all domain extensions registered at FastComet are allowed to have a private WHOIS as each of the Registry sets its own rules (especially most of the country code top-level domains don’t really allow the WHOIS protection feature).