Private Domains

worth it?

[PKfanSteph]

I'm just wondering if it's worth the extra money to pay for the privacy domain registration. Is there really that much spam that comes directly from your WHOIS listing?

[BlueGhost]

Depends on what you are doing. Or not doing :-)

I only use it so my competitors don't know who I am. On the other hand I got a call from A+ something or other on my voice mail. It seems that they are calling everyone who is registering a new domain name to offer their services, this is the 2nd call I have gotten from them after registering a domain name. I did not find them so wonderful on the first call. So I don’t plan to call them back.

Has any one else experienced this or is this a godaddy/wild west thing? I think I will give them (wild west)a call tomorrow and see if they are releasing their list.

Now that I think about it how would a marketing company find out you just registered a new domain name? I don’t thing the registrar is releasing the information – but here it is.

As a matter of fact I am going to post this to a new topic so we might want to move this.

[PKfanSteph]

I have registered 7 domains with GoDaddy without any problems, but I was curious if it was worth the extra money since I plan to register more.

[WebBender]

PKfanSteph,

Why not just register the domain(s) for now and purchase the Stealth WHOIS a little before you plan to go live?

You can add it later. :)

WB