Personal privacy for publishers

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Hi Folks,

Is there any point in considering one of those domain proxy services that hide your name and contact details on whois?

Is there any risk of kooks trying to contact you if they are unhappy with their affiliate product or if they take offence with something on your website?

Of course I'm not planning on having the kind of product or content on my new site that will get people angry, but who knows what unbalanced people might focus on.

Is there anything else I should be aware of? Has anyone had any bad experiences?

Thanks,
Sean
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  • Profile picture of the author E. Brian Rose
    Originally Posted by Phoenix Imaging View Post

    Of course I'm not planning on having the kind of product or content on my new site that will get people angry...
    AH HA HA HA Quote of the week!
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    • Profile picture of the author Phoenix Imaging
      Originally Posted by E. Brian Rose View Post

      AH HA HA HA Quote of the week!
      Well there's provocative material, and then there's PROVOCATIVE material.

      Might be fun to create a fictional list of potential products or domain names which will instantly attract trouble, but it might be a slippery slope! "You have 789 new messages in your PM box".
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      • Profile picture of the author Phoenix Imaging
        Bump.

        Does anyone use domain proxy services? Is there any point?

        Is there anything else I should be aware of? Has anyone had any bad experiences?

        Here's a sales pitch from one proxy service:
        Our service also protects your privacy in that spammers, stalkers, harassers, data miners, and identity thieves can't get to you without getting past Dynadot's watchful eyes
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        • Profile picture of the author Phoenix Imaging
          Hi Folks. No answers to this thread, but I did get a good answer from a marketer in another forum, and I thought I'd post it here to round off this thread.

          The answer (to the question is there any point in using a domain proxy service) went like this:

          1.) If you have your email address available in whois, it is likely spammers will get hold of it. Don't use your main address, use domains (at) yourwebsite for this. You can set the spam filters high for it, and don't use it for anything else. Good tip I thought.

          2.) He has had scammers offer to buy his domains using the whois contact, but were fairly easy to spot.

          3.) He suggested that he would never give money to a website/service that hides their contact details using a domain proxy or anything similar. Makes you look like you have something to hide. Makes sense.

          All the best,
          Sean
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  • Profile picture of the author Phoenix Imaging
    P.S. Here's what one proxy service says:
    Our service also protects your privacy in that spammers, stalkers, harassers, data miners, and identity thieves can't get to you without getting past Dynadot's watchful eyes
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