How can People Contact you if you Enable Privacy Protection for your Domain Name?

[c0mputertalk]

Once you enable Privacy Protection for your domain name, the Contact Details in any Whois Lookup query would display generic details.

By MailLetters, couriers delivered at the Postal Address would not be accepted. This implies, that you will not be contactable at the address displayed in your domain name Whois.

By PhoneTelephone callers would be advised to email you at the email address displayed in the Whois of your domain name.

By EmailEmail sent to the email address listed in the Whois, will get a response specifying an unbranded URL, which needs to be visited by this person. Upon visiting this URL, they would be able to mention their query in a secure form, while specifying the type of Contact (Registrant, Administrative, Technical, Billing) they wish to email. The contents of the submitted form will then be emailed to the selected Contact's (Registrant, Administrative, Technical or Billing) email address, as specified in your Control Panel.

Therefore, you are assured of still being contactable, even though your Contact Details are not visible in the Whois of your domain name.

 

[Nomad1]

I don't want anyone to contact me by checking my domain details. More than 99.99 percent messages received through domain registration details (if privacy not activated) are spam. For the domains that I list for sale on the marketplaces, interested buyers can send me an email through the marketplace.

 

[Heatman1]

I don't want anyone to contact me by checking my domain details. More than 99.99 percent messages received through domain registration details (if privacy not activated) are spam. For the domains that I list for sale on the marketplaces, interested buyers can send me an email through the marketplace.

I have noticed the same thing as well with the level of spam that comes in when I'm being contacted through domain registration details. It's why I always have my privacy activated and most visitors contact me through email. 

 

[Rampage]

Yep, I agree that most contact made through the whois data is just spam from people wanting to scam or sell you stuff you don't need or want. I'd always keep that data private and make it hard if not impossible for people to contact you through it because it all tends to be a load of rubbish anyway. I'm surprised those systems still exist with having space for contact details.