WHOIS Privacy prevents IPOWER customers from having their personal contact information displayed online for anyone to access. Whenever a user purchases a domain name, his or her name, address and phone number are automatically entered into a public database that can be viewed and accessed by anyone.

This opens the floodgates to spammers, telemarketers and other undesired third parties. WHOIS Privacy ensures that the user's information is kept private and requests to view this information will be forwarded to the domain name owner who can then choose whether to respond.

"This is an important step forward for Internet privacy," says Thomas Gorny, CEO of IPOWER. "Many people are concerned about having such private information out there for anyone to access. We know that this is a feature that our customers would value and we didn't want to keep it off limits to anyone because of price."