Leosghost - 4:14 pm on Sep 3, 2005 (gmt 0)

A key need is the ability to make WHOIS information anonymous

there is more than one way to skin a cat ...there's a post somewhere here from digitalv about giving real info etc ..I tend to side with him ...Plus you can always set up a front company with anonymous directors or owners etc and let "it" buy all domains for you ..
Some companies are actually much more relaxed than they would appear about the real ID issue ..the number 4 or 5 world wide ( which is actually based where I am ) has domains registered to such individuals as " whatsit of your business" and whaddya need to know for " etc and their equivalents in English ..some are even registered to "expletives" living at "expletived" adresses ...( I know cos I did the whois and thought I'd never get that past the folks where I regged my domains ..in any language ) ..

Another point to think of when choosing a registering company is also is their policy and marketing consistant ..I am gradually moving over mine from a *dom reg /hosting company* with whom I was entirely satisfied and now to "myself" as reseller of a major system ( I was with them before as reseller but the off web life took over a while and I wasn't doing so much registration volume ...some of us like the boss ( mod ) of this forum have a problem to know when to stop registering ..;) ..we have had threads about such addiction here ...mostly the same posters ..insomniacs all of us ;)

Now that I'm back in the land and company of the "hey I just got a great idea" brigade ..

I'm again my own registrant (and no I'm not touting for business as per the rules ...if you land on one of my places you'll never know it was me ) ...
However ...I am currently auditioning girls for my next ad spot ..so ....;)

All of this to say that if you know how to do DNS work properly ( bad "pointing" can kill you faster than a backlink to a scraper in a "g" update )..you can often do a better job yourself for less ( depending on volume )...

I was also prompted to change by the fact that they *see between* decided that if you weren't renting one of their servers you can only renew existing domain names ..not register new ones ..they were /are very reasonably poriced ..but I need my fix ...often ...;)

If you are going to register or have more than a hundred or so names ..you can set up an "inc" anonymously in Nevada or wherever ..and let the shell company register for you with others ..thus preserving the anonimity ...or do it for yourself ...or both ..;)

edited by me speeling and spacing