Private registration

Jonnyjonny_uk · 04-18-2007, 05:43 AM

Hi im new to the domain name game, wow it rhymes!!!

Can you tell me if its really worth registering a domain as private or not. What are the implications.

Sorry if its a silly question but we all start somewhere!!

Cheers

Jonny

TheBulldog · 04-18-2007, 06:41 AM

Do you like telemarketers? Junk Mail? Your address and phone number easily accessable to anyone in the world including rich sons of kings in Nigeria?

It is kind of a tricky thing. I am "unlisted" everything. Phone, address aren't in the books. My personal information is not floating around on random websites, I don't get spam emails to my personal account, just my gmail one.....I like that I feel relatively safe on the internet. Others don't see it as a big deal.

Jonnyjonny_uk · 04-18-2007, 07:51 AM

Yep fair shout, cheers

groundctrl · 04-18-2007, 12:32 PM

i don't own a lot of domains, but i've never personally gotten calls or anything. email spam is a given, but gmail takes care of it pretty well, so i'm not worried, particularly.

apexad · 04-19-2007, 02:34 AM

When I got some junkmail actually delivered to my home once that listed domain I owned it scared me a bit, and now all my domains are private. Thankfully all it required doing was transferring them over to my hosting company, dreamhost, that has a free privacy service for domains.

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groundctrl NamePros Regular Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 245	i don't own a lot of domains, but i've never personally gotten calls or anything. email spam is a given, but gmail takes care of it pretty well, so i'm not worried, particularly.

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