Comments on: Time to Stop Using Whois Privacy?

By: Jerrick

Jerrick — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 01:53:48 +0000

i think even for business purpose also need whois protect service
because customer will look for your detail in your website such as your.tel or contact us. And not use whois. Only spammer and those competitor will use whois to look for you.

By: Howard

Howard — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 04:59:19 +0000

For a thorough, if somewhat biased, discussion of this topic, complete with references, go to Dynadot.com and click on “privacy”. With their privacy service they show your name, but not your contact info for $2.00 a year. They call it a mail forwarding system. I have my website hosted with them. It is a simple site, but I don’t come anywhere near to using the disk and bandwidth provided for a ridiculously low price—I think it is 11.99 per year! Good CA based phone support also. I don’t get much spam, but I don’t know what I would get without their “privacy” service either. My website is Woodstairways.com. I am a Seattle area finish carpentry contractor.

By: Sam

Sam — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:27:28 +0000

Seriously? Since when did normal average consumers started checking the who is of a site to check its credibility?

Even I only check it if I want to buy a domain or want to see when it was registered…

By: Caroline Goddard

Caroline Goddard — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:13:04 +0000

Nope. No way. I agree with the above-responder who said it is a personal safety issue.

Your advice may hold true for a business with an actual office, or even a business located in a home where customers/clients visit. But I am a freelance writer and photographer who works on location only, and there is absolutely no reason why I should put my personal home address out there for random people to see. My clients know it, because it is on my invoice. Otherwise there is absolutely no reason for it to be out there. There are plenty of other ways for legitimate customers-to-be to verify that I am who I say I am.

By: Pallab

Pallab — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:40:02 +0000

The email address is shown in a manner that is fairly easy to decipher for most bots with OCR. Once thats done a spam bot can harvest millions of addresses in a day from whois.
That’s why I use the privacy guard feature offered by my domain name reseller.

If anyone wishes to contact me he or she can do so using my blog’s contact form, linkedin, twitter, facebook, SU etc.
So, I dont really buy your argument.