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WHOIS privacy protection replaces your personal information on your domain with WHOIS contact information. This is useful if you would not like to disclose your personal information but this usually costs a yearly fee. I personal use WHOIS privacy protection on all my domains because I don’t like leaving my information available to the public. Of course there are advantages without WHOIS protection. For example, people can contact you if they want to buy your domain and you could be missing some good offers using WHOIS protection.
Do you use WHOIS privacy protection? Do you think it is worth paying for it every year?
I have made my settings private. It was just recommended to me to to it that way. I am not sure whether it was the best thing to do or not but I respect the opinion of the person that suggested it so that's what I did. :)
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TommyCarey
Using a whois privacy protection is one of the best ways to keep your information a secret because let's say you use godaddy and pay for the yearly $7.99 domain privacy you'll see your information show up as example@domainsbyproxy.com for all your contact emails. People will still be able to contact you since everything is forwarded, and people do this pretty often. I get at lease 3 emails a week from people sending me either spam or actually interested in talking. I just got an email maybe 2 days ago from someone pitching a service to me and I started talking to them through my actual support email. After a few emails back and forth I decided to sign up and I'm even partnering with the guy on a new website to see if we can make a few bucks on it
I'd recommend using domain privacy protection so if anyone does a WHOIS search they won't see your personal information. The only reasno I can see someone not using it is if they are running one website and everything is set up with their business information. By keeping your business information easy to find through a WHOIS search you'll probably get a lot more spam, but if you're targeting online marketers or web designers it will give them an easy way to contact you if they don't get a response from your support system. And if they see you're an actual business they'll be more willing to partner on projects. This is a long shot though, I still mask all my information
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