Many of you may already be familiar with Bluehost as a premier shared web hosting provider. But what you may not now is that Bluehost is also a domain registrar much like a GoDaddy or a Network Solutions. Now you can not only host all of your websites on your Bluehost account, but you can also register and upkeep all of your domain names as well within the same interface. This is all of course part of a strategic move on Bluehost part to expand in the overall web hosting market. It's working very well so far as Bluehost customers are purchasing their domains more and more through Bluehost rather than through a typical domain registrar.
Privacy Whois is Normally $8.99/year. Bluehost only charges $4.95
Here's the really cool part. Normally if you want to pay for Privacy Whois, which is the service to block your private information from the public such as name, phone number, address etc. from Public Whois you expect to pay around $8.99/year from providers such as GoDaddy. This service is almost as much as paying for another domain name each year. Bluehost in order to compete, is low balling the competition and charging only $4.95/year for privacy whois on all domains that you register through them. A fantastic deal from Bluehost of nearly 50% off the normal market price.
A little About How Privacy Whois Works
First off, the purpose of public whois information is to give people access to information regarding the ownership of a domain name. This in many cases is a good thing for purposes of enforcing law on domain owners, contacting domain owners for purchasing domains etc. Typically the information included in a Whois for a domain includes:
* Name of owner
* Phone number
* Email address
* Address of owner
* Creation date
* Expiration date
* Name of registrar
The service of Privacy Whois is simply the service of making your name, phone number, email, and home/business address anonymous. It's often serviced by your Registrar and your personal information is replaced with theirs. Your Domain Registrar can now act as a filter, where someone can contact them first before you are contacted. The important thing here is that spammers are not able to get a hold of your personal information. To learn more about Privacy and Public Whois, this is a great article on the subject. Also do a domain search on Whois.net to see what a typical whois lookup looks like.
Your First Domain & Privacy Whois Are Free!
If you do not already have a Bluehost account, when you setup your account your first domain name and privacy whois are free! In fact, they are free for the lifetime of your hosting account with Bluehost. Setup your Bluehost account for only $6.95/month and your domain name and privacy whois for that domain are completely free. Click here to learn more about Bluehost special Privacy Whois offer.