Private registration

[Jonnyjonny_uk]

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]

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]

Yep fair shout, cheers

 

[groundctrl]

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]

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.