Register a domain in our company name: Domain protection

What does Domain protection include?

Domain protection includes four protections, and only four. They are written into the terms of each protected domain.

1. Registered in our company's name. The registry and WHOIS/RDAP show DomaineGoat LLC, never the customer. You stay the beneficial owner and can take the domain back in your own name, free.
2. Transfer lock on. Any transfer or DNS change must be confirmed from the customer's account.
3. Minimal data. DomaineGoat LLC holds only the customer's email. Its release follows the rule on the data disclosure page.
4. Every complaint read by a person before any action on the domain. This point exists only with the option. Without it, complaints follow our abuse policy. Phishing, malware and child abuse material are still acted on without waiting for a court, after that reading.

What you pay for is the four points together, written into the domain's own terms.

Can you hide the domain owner from the registry?

Yes, with Domain protection: the registry receives DomaineGoat LLC as registrant, so you never appear in its database. That is the difference with free WHOIS privacy. Privacy only changes what the public lookup shows; a registry that holds registrant data still keeps your record behind it.

This matters because each registry keeps its own copy of every registration and applies the law of its own country. Public Interest Registry, which runs .org, is in Reston, Virginia, United States; DENIC, which runs .de, is in Frankfurt, Germany (IANA root database, checked 19 October 2026). A court in that country can ask the registry for its file. With Domain protection, the file names our company.

The .com and .net registries work differently. Verisign runs them as thin registries: it receives no registrant contact data, and its RDAP shows the registrar, the nameservers and the dates. For a .com, the option matters at the registrar level, where our registrar partner then records our company as registrant.

The registry jurisdiction index lists the country of every registry we sell.

How does the domain transfer lock work?

A domain transfer lock blocks any move of the domain to another registrar until the lock is lifted. With Domain protection it is on from the day the domain is registered.

• Transfers out: you lift the lock and request the EPP code from your account. The code is free, from your account, at any time, except in the 60 days after a registration or a transfer (ICANN Transfer Policy) and while a UDRP or court lock applies. There is no exit fee.
• DNS changes: a change of nameservers or records is confirmed from your account, never by an email reply or a support ticket alone.
• Your codes stay yours: We never ask for your password, your account number or your domain transfer (EPP) codes by email or chat.

The lock protects against a hijack by someone who gets into your mailbox or tricks support. It does not stop a registry acting under its own law, and it does not stop a UDRP panel decision from being applied.

Do I still own a domain registered in your company name?

Yes: you are the beneficial owner, and the domain's terms say so. Four guarantees come with every protected domain.

1. Beneficial ownership. DomaineGoat LLC holds the registration for you; the domain is yours to use, renew, sell or move.
2. Full control. DNS, nameservers, renewals and the lock are managed from your account, as with any domain.
3. Free EPP code. The transfer code is free, from your account. ICANN's Transfer Policy still lets a transfer to another registrar be refused in the 60 days after a registration or a previous transfer, and a UDRP or court lock blocks it.
4. Free return to your own name. On request, we put the domain back in your name at no cost. It then becomes a standard registration, and the option is no longer charged. This is a change of registrant: under ICANN's Transfer Policy it can lock transfers to another registrar for 60 days, unless the opt-out that policy allows is used when you ask. Ask support before you request it if you plan to move the domain soon.

For the 12 extensions sold only with Domain protection, a return to your own name means a transfer to a registrar that can register them in your name, because we do not sell them any other way.

What are the limits of Domain protection?

Domain protection changes the name on the registration. It does not change the law, our abuse policy or ICANN rules.

• Same strict exceptions. Phishing (including pharming), malware, botnets and fraud that takes money from victims are suspended within 24 hours of a well-documented report, protected or not; child sexual abuse material is handled immediately, and the URLs are reported to NCMEC. Details: report abuse.
• UDRP and URS. A trademark complaint names the registrant of record, which is our company. We tell you, and you can answer it. The domain is locked within 2 business days of the provider's request and the panel decision is applied. See UDRP and URS.
• Registries. A registry acts under its own country's law. A US court can order Verisign to act on a .com without asking us.
• Our registrar partner. It keeps its own legal duties and abuse contact, and answers to the courts of its own country.
• ICANN data escrow. Our accredited registrar partner deposits the registration data it holds with an ICANN-approved escrow agent (RAA 2013 §3.6). For a protected domain, the customer contact behind it is your verified email.
• No promise of impunity. The option keeps your name out of the registration. It does not make unlawful content lawful.

What does ICANN's RAA §3.7.7.3 mean for a proxy registration?

It means the registrant of record who licenses a domain to someone else carries the liability for wrongful use, unless it discloses the licensee's contact details within 7 days. The disclosure goes to a party that gives reasonable evidence of actionable harm (ICANN, 2013 Registrar Accreditation Agreement, §3.7.7.3).

Two plain points follow.

• Our disclosure rule does not change. The clause sets who is liable when there is no disclosure; we take that position for protected domains. We release the data we hold only when Panamanian law requires it (a Panamanian court or prosecutor's order), or in a UDRP case. Foreign authorities go through Panamanian legal process, and bulk requests are refused. See data disclosure.
• This clause is why we keep one verified email per domain. A registrant of record must be able to reach its licensee. That one address is the contact we hold for you; it is never published. ICANN rules also require it to be verified within 15 days.

Which extensions are sold with Domain protection only?

12 extensions are sold with Domain protection only: .de, .uk, .nl, .cc, .to, .ch, .pl, .be, .at, .cz, .nz, .fi. Their registries require a registrant name and a postal address. We collect only an email, so the registry receives those of DomaineGoat LLC.

The listed price of these extensions already includes the option. For .de, the extension alone is $7.99; with Domain protection the yearly price is $36.99.

In all, 43 extensions can be ordered with Domain protection. Extensions whose rules require the customer's own identity or local presence, such as .us, .eu, .fr, .ca and .it, are not sold at all.