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What is Protected Registration?

Protected Registration is a premium service that you can apply to most of the domain names you purchase or already registered with us. It helps ensure that you retain ownership of your domain name, regardless of expiration dates or attempts to transfer. With Protected Registration, you receive:

Domain Ownership Protection

Protects you from losing your domain because of a credit card expiration or failure or if you forget to renew your domain or change your contact information. If you fail to renew your domain name, we hold it for up to one year. During that time, it is placed on inactive, protected status with a parked page. We do not keep your related services running if your domain renewal lapses. To rescue the domain, pay the renewal fee.

Deadbolt Transfer Protection

Puts your domain on lockdown, making it impossible for any inadvertent, accidental, or malicious transfer. Unlike regular domain locking, which occurs at the registry level, Deadbolt Transfer Protection offers an even higher level of security — we lock your domain in your account.

Ownership Protection Reports

Annual domain status report and email updates help you keep track of vital domain information.

Private Registration

Typically when you register a domain, your contact information is publicly available. Private Registration shields your personal information from public view. You control who reaches you and when.

Business Registration

Business Registration offers you a complete, online advertising listing that is instantly available to everyone who searches for your domain name in the Whois database.

To ensure that you receive protection for your domain name, a domain that has Protected Registration applied to it cannot be set to manually renew.

Protected Registration is not available for any domain that uses the following domain extensions:

• .ME
• .US
• .DE
• .JP
• .BE
• .AT
• .CO.UK
• .ME.UK
• .ORG.UK
• .CO.NZ
• .NET.NZ
• .ORG.NZ
• .CN
• .COM.CN
• .ORG.CN
• .NET.CN
• .TW
• .COM.TW
• .ORG.TW
• .IDV.TW
• .JOBS
• .EU
• .AM
• .FM
• .GS
• .MS
• .NU
• .TC
• .TK
• .VG

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