Hiding registration information

Is it worth it from any kind of SEO standpoint?

[javahava]

Registrars often provide a service that hides your registration info so that others using whois can't see it. There's a nominal fee for this (i forget exactly but maybe around 10 bucks); is this worth it from any kind of SEO standpoint? What if you have 2 sites that link to each other, but have the same registration info; could that possibly hurt your rankings?

[maximillianos]

I think down the road this may become more of a factor, but for now you are probably okay. If you want to play it safe, I would just put mostly abbreviations for your info on record for the new site and create a new email for it. The email is the most important contact information anyway, the rest can be your new "company name", etc. You get the point.

Don't forget to setup email forwarding from your new email to your current email.