question Do you use Domain Privacy ?!

[cipcip]

I am just curious if I should use domain privacy or not.
I keep on reading about people that receive inbound e-mails, so I assume that someone actually do a whois on a domain ? Or when you say inbound you are just referring to a landing page where people actually sends you an e-mail ?!

Thank you,
Cristian

 

[Chinwong]

Sometimes, I use partial privacy from Dynadot. But I really don't know if this affects sales or not.

 

[cipcip]

I started using domain privacy again.

Today I received a call from +44 7537 152719 from a guy that had an Indian accent. Phone number is from UK.
He asked me if I know about Financial Marketing and if I wanted to learn more about it... wtf

 

[Laker Guru]

I changed my mind & no longer use privacy because I use my spam phone # & an email that's easy to sort. I WANT it to be easy to be contacted & verified. ALSO, not having privacy makes it easier to list on various sites. It's actually this last issue that's making me use GD less & less.... since they block everyone's WhoIs data for other companies EVEN when people haven't paid for privacy, so sometimes it makes it harder/more time consuming to get things verified==> using Epik more.

 

[Sandern]

If it is free, you might want to still not use it as you can get people to find you by having privacy off.

 

[Steve Andersen]

So half my domains have privacy on half don’t. If it’s free I’ll leave it on. I find that almost all spam I get is after I win on DropCatch and they dump the names on namebrite. I took in over 150 names this month and everyone of them got spam emails, phone calls, linkedin spam, you name it. But it’s always the ones I win on drop catch going to namebrite. I started a new thing I now answer a phone and put it on mute. It’s funny listening to them in the background pissed I won’t respond. I tried blocking their numbers but these spammers must have hundreds of VoIP robot call numbers so it’s useless.

But if privacy was free I would have on all domains.

When I outbound a domain I find I have no issue contacting a domain owner, by contacting registrar. So I am sure others can contact me the same.

 

[myfavorite]

Just starting using it on some domains to see it's impact.

 

[Ali Adil]

You totally need area security, however, you don't have to pay for it. Per ICANN rules, in the event that you give false data in your space enlistment, you can lose your area. I as of late enrolled an area without protection and I got such a great amount of spam from logo and website architecture organizations that it isn't justified, despite any potential benefits.