I'm all for keeping personal info private if you choose. In fact, it should be the default setting when you register and protected by the constitution. If it's not, it's subject to abuse, aka domain registration requirements and others. It does'nt make sense for example, that there are US laws that forbid certain sharing of personal informatiom, yet privacy is not allowed on dot US domains (probably one reason it's a dud). It's Amazing how many people think it's their universal right to be able to discover other people's personal information.
Read my lips (famous quote), "You can still be reached if you have whois privacy."
Another good reason to use privacy. I'm getting credit card offers by mail, where the information originated from whois. How do I know for sure? The domain name was on the offer.
I voted, "no" on WhoIs Protection. I don't use it not anymore. I learned my lesson the hard way.
RegFly is still taking people's money and not registering anything. I lost hundreds of domains there during that disaster. Thankfully, I got rid of most of that F***ed up ProtectFly before the site went crazy. I'm lucky I didn't lose everything. It is cheaper to just get a hardware solution. I got a Barracuda to filter out all the junk mail. It stopped over a million pieces of spam last year. I have a lot of domains, so the yearly update charge costs a lot less than a privacy protection service.
"Privacy: Registrant's contact details, such as address and telephone number, are made easily accessible to anyone over the internet for most top-level domains. Although some registrars offer private registrations (where the contact information of the registrar is shown), under ICANN rules the registrar or "private registration" company is then legal owner (lessor) of the domain."]
