Might wanna look at njal.la
Unless you’re planning on distributing cp or anything like that it should give you the layer of privacy you want.

I’ve had 123 Sex Drive as the address on one of my domains for over a decade now. If it’s personal use stuff, not business, you’re fine to put in whatever.

I did back in highschool, but I have to imagine things are way different now than they were then. I mean, shit, it only cost like $5 when I had one, and I wasn’t 18 yet so all my info was made up.

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The issue with using fake details is that you risk getting your account suspended. Also, if your domain gets stolen you’ve made it impossible to retrieve because you will have to verify your information.

How can a domain get stolen?

Do they really care enough to check your info manually if you don’t use your domain name for malicious purposes?

Depends on TLD how strict the checks are, but generally you’re at least violating TOS by doing it and can lose your domain should someone actually check the info. A lot of registrars provide at least whois-security, so they’ll know your real details but won’t share them openly to anyone who asks. I assume if you get into something illegal and court orders to release the data then they’ll happily comply instead of hurting their own business.

But if you just want to keep your real name and address out of the internet, that would be enough at least for me.

Using fake information is mandatory otherwise you'll get doxed - the domain ownership is public information, including your full name, physical address, email address and phone number. If someone knows you own the domain, they can look it up using whois.

I got death threats that way, one time.

You can give your info to the registrar and then make it anonymous to whois domain.tld searches so it’s not public. Cloudflare is the registrar I use these days because it’s a one-stop shop and used the company address but, at least in the U.S., they need your info for both credit/debit card processing. (Processing fees are cheaper the more info they provide but usually any address with the same zip code is enough.)

If you have nefarious plans, I don’t have a good recommendation. But if it’s just about privacy, I don’t know if it’s really possible to be completely anonymous anyway. I guess you could use a gift card or something but at least in the U.S., if you own or buy a house, your address is public info already anyway. Shit, city hall will probably give you blueprints of any house.

My domain is still set to a former address of mine and I never bothered to update it fifteen years later.

You could provide an address for your registration… sometimes people make typos.

If there’s truly an audit or verification it’ll be easier to explain a typo than why you said you live at “123 Eat Shit Ave”.

There’s privacy guards these days. Namecheap even offers it for free now.

Most registrars have some form of whois protection now, so the only people who can easily see it are the registars themselves (and the government that controls them).

Assuming you’re paying for a domain using real money, they’ll need your information on file as part of the online payment anyway, so using a fake id doesn’t really hide anything from them.

I’ve had a couple of domains (including one .com) registered under a made-up name for several years, nothing interesting ever happened.

I recently did that and my account was banned. It was not expensive (~$1), but still felt bad

Just use WHOIS protection (which should be free, but whatever).