Do you have you're own website? Is it registered under your name? Then you may want to know this:

My friend, recently got her own website, and I made sure I asked her the same question I asked myself when I got mine: IS MY IDENTITY SECURE? The answer: NO. It is not.

When you get a website, your name and information is automatically registered and made available to a domain registry site called whois.net - meaning any Joe Blow and Crazy Cate can look up YOUR domain, and immediately find out the domain Owner's name, contact address and phone number. (this is information they don't tell you about when you get your domain because they assume you either know, or that you are a large corporation and WANT this information made available to the public.

But for me? For you? For anyone who might have even the tiniest sliver of paranoia? BAD IDEA. Especially if your site contains material that might have the slimmest of possibility of attracting a stalker.

If you go to the site, and enter your domain, and your info is visible, DON'T PANIC (LOL I did.) This isn't a great situation, but chances are noone's thought to search you (most people do NOT know about whois.net)

Wonderfully enough, there IS a solution: Go to your service provider and complain. Tell them you searched your whois and found this stuff is public and that you do NOT under any circumstances want this information available. They should (if they're any sort of provider at all) know what you're talking about and have a contact privacy solution in place and ready to implement. For example, my website information search now leads to a page that gives the website address, and states they need to go to contactprivacy.com to contact me. Going to the site will, after some prompting, send them to a nondescript form that will redirect their query to my email inbox. MUCH safer for my sanity and paranoia.

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