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Is worth getting WHOIS protection?

by GoodnightSweetRatRace
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Do you mind people having access to your personal details? I've never bothered with it before, but I randomly searched my website into Google and was surprised at how many websites have my personal details.
#protection #whois #worth
  • Profile picture of the author onegoodman
    It bother me if people can get my info on google. Your information in the wrong hand can always cause a lot of damage.

    The information you are providing for a registration is too much. If you don't have you own office, you as well providing people with your home address.

    Now consider your information in a hand of criminal, he got your phone no, your name, and your home.

    He can contact you under wrong premisses to check if you are home before he decide to steal it
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    • Profile picture of the author Evolutionsic
      Originally Posted by onegoodman View Post

      It bother me if people can get my info on google. Your information in the wrong hand can always cause a lot of damage.

      The information you are providing for a registration is too much. If you don't have you own office, you as well providing people with your home address.

      Now consider your information in a hand of criminal, he got your phone no, your name, and your home.

      He can contact you under wrong premisses to check if you are home before he decide to steal it
      this happens
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  • Profile picture of the author TestiVar
    Do a whois on these sites:

    google.com
    yahoo.com
    microsoft.com
    amazon.com
    ebay.com
    reebok.com
    nike.com
    honda.com
    remax.com
    aa.com
    southwest.com

    Pick your own 50 online businesses that you are reasonably certain are successful and profitable.

    Do any of them have whois protection?

    List your business name and address. It is what everyone else does. You can't hide and do business simultaneously. It is one or the other.

    Business information is NOT personal information. Obviously you would not put your home phone number and address here. You are running a business; right?
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    • Profile picture of the author mojojuju
      Originally Posted by TestiVar View Post


      Pick your own 50 online businesses that you are reasonably certain are successful and profitable.

      Do any of them have whois protection?
      How about this one: http://whois.domaintools.com/warriorforum.com ?

      Not a successful & profitable site?
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  • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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    I don't use whois protection. I want people to be able to contact me. I have used the info in whois to contact people to make an offer to buy their sites.
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    • Profile picture of the author mojojuju
      Originally Posted by sbucciarel View Post

      I don't use whois protection. I want people to be able to contact me.
      Using whois protection does not prevent people from being able to contact you. Registrars with whois protection will usually publish a "proxy" email address in the whois data for a private domain registration that is automatically forwarded to the domain registrant's real email address.
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      • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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        Originally Posted by mojojuju View Post

        Using whois protection does not prevent people from being able to contact you. Registrars with whois protection will usually publish a "proxy" email address in the whois data for a private domain registration that is automatically forwarded to the domain registrant's real email address.
        True, but every time I've contacted someone with whois protection, I've never received a response. Irregardless, there's no reason for me to hide behind whois prevention.
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        • Profile picture of the author mojojuju
          Originally Posted by sbucciarel View Post

          True, but every time I've contacted someone with whois protection, I've never received a response.
          Originally Posted by Debora Humphries View Post

          Like Suzanne said, no one will be able to contact you if they are seriously interested in making an offer on one of your sites.
          sbucciarel, it's probably because those people didn't have their forwarding address set up properly in their domain account. I have my private whois set up properly and I have no problem receiving communications from my private whois address.

          Namecheap, for instance, does not have this set up by default. Unless the domain registrant who is using private whois specifies otherwise, all emails sent to the email address listed in the whois record will be forwarded to support@namecheap.com.

          In other words, a domain registrant using private whois needs to set up their email address properly if they want to receive email correspondence forwarded from the address listed in the whois record.

          Originally Posted by sbucciarel View Post

          Irregardless, there's no reason for me to hide behind whois prevention.
          If that works out for you, good. Others prefer to "hide" or as I like to call it, "maintain their privacy", as they feel the potential downsides of revealing their personal information online outweigh any potential benefit that may be gained from it.
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  • Profile picture of the author rooze
    I only use private whois on sites that I'm using for interlinking networks. It's one additional layer of protection to stop G associating multiple sites to one owner. So I'm not hiding from people, just from G
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  • Profile picture of the author Webpromotion
    This topic comes up with hard separation between people.

    This is what I feel.

    If your site is a spammy affiliate site that emails too--- then get protection.

    If your site is a legit site---- put your business address on there.

    I personally, when purchasing online, if the site has a private whois--- I do not normally buy if the site has no reputation.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mekanism
    its a privacy issue for me. I'm not Google or Microsoft. I want my business and what i do to be private. I dont need other people snooping around.
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  • Profile picture of the author Debora Humphries
    I prefer my who is to be public because it is a matter of trust. You can use a PO Box so they will not have your home address and a google gmail in case your email gets scraped by the spammers and you want to protect your personal email address.

    Like Suzanne said, no one will be able to contact you if they are seriously interested in making an offer on one of your sites.

    Just my thoughts.
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