How To Stop Getting Physical Mail Sent To My House?

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  eagljonl · Member · May 12, 2015 at 10:43 pm

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  Hi there!

  I recently created a new website using wordpress, and ever since then I’ve been getting alot of physical mail regarding my site sent to my house. They’re usually addressed like: ” To The Business Owner Of: [Website Name] “

  I’m wondering if I can change my privacy settings, security settings or something to make this stop. Does anyone know?

  Thanks in advance,
  Jon

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · May 12, 2015 at 10:48 pm

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  Domain owners are required to share their contact information. The $8.00 Private Registration upgrade will protect your identity and hide your contact information. https://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/

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  shawnajroberts · Member · May 12, 2015 at 11:00 pm

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  Hi Jon! As timethief mentioned, domain owners share their contact information, but the Private Registration upgrade will hide it behind proxy info.

  You can add that to your existing domain here:

  https://wordpress.com/my-upgrades/

  Register a New Domain

  Let me know if you have any trouble adding that!

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  eagljonl · Member · May 13, 2015 at 4:07 pm

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  Whether this is an issue on WordPress’s side or some other entity, I’d like to comment that monetizing someone’s private information/privacy in general is objectionable and morally wrong.

  I’ll be sure to advise fellow WordPress users of the onslaught of spam mail they’ll face unless they cough up “upgrade” money for their “free website.”

  Privacy shouldn’t be an upgrade.

  Regards,
  Jon

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  shawnajroberts · Member · May 13, 2015 at 4:22 pm

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  Hi Jon! This isn’t something we have control over. ICANN, which is the nonprofit organization that maintains and coordinates domain registrations, requires that contact information be given when a domain is registered. This contact information is available via whois lookup, which works essentially the same way across all domain registrars.

  I know some people think inputting incorrect information is a way around this, however ICANN mandates that if the contact information specified for the domain is incorrect, they can seize the domain from you.

  You can read some more information about this here:

  http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/10473/providing-fake-info-during-domain-registration-does-it-matter

  I’m happy to answer any other questions you have though!