Personal domain name registrations

[goodideadave]

I gave all that personal contact info to the registrar years ago when I registered my site, and as far as I know no one has tried to break into my house to steal my website. But my dogs might have scared them off...

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[Ed Leighton Dick]

There are some registrars that do offer so-called private registrations, but that involves using their company as the official registrant in the WHOIS database. I'm not a big fan of that, though. Unless you really don't want people to know for some reason, I wouldn't worry about it. As someone else said, that's all public information, anyway. Ed

[David Crow]

S. Senthil Kumar wrote:

The whois database will apparently contain the name, address and telephone number of the registrant (me) and that database, as you all know, is public.

I've seen a lot of entries that were blank.

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[John M Drescher]

Use a free dynamic dns service that does not ask for any confidential information but still registers me a domain ([SOMENAMEOFMYCHOICE].homeip.net) at no charge to me.

John

[Chris Losinger]

i had a website hijacked and held ransom by someone who faked my email address. it took many days of phone calls and faxes to my registrar to get it back.

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[Lost User]

Ravi Bhavnani wrote:

you might want to use a registrar who allows private registrations. The info displayed in the whois record is that of the registrar vs. your own.

The downside (and it's a big one) is that, AFAIK, the registrar is then the official owner. Cheers, Drew.

[Ennis Ray Lynch Jr]

I don't put a valid phone number, the rest is correct on my registrations.

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[John M Drescher]

Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote:

I don't put a valid phone number

That is what I do on all web pages that ask for my phone number. They will get 999-999-9999 and if the site rejects that I give them 412-555-1212 and if that still does not work I give them the # of the fax machine.

John

[Oakman]

John M. Drescher wrote:

the # of the fax machine

That'd be higher up on my list of choices.

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[Member 96]

As has been said a decent registrar will have the option of concealing your personal info and they *won't charge extra for it*. Try Domaindirect, we've used them for years and they've been very solid for us with lot's of advanced capabilities and the ability to do pretty much *anything* with your domain at no extra charge.

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[Vasudevan Deepak Kumar]

Registrars like GoDaddy do offer a Whois Protection from spammers with captcha.

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[Lost User]

John C wrote:

a decent registrar will have the option of concealing your personal info and they *won't charge extra for it*.

Ever look into the legal ramifications of not being listed in the WHOIS when both ICANN and CIRA require it as part of their domain registration agreements? Cheers, Drew.

[Christian Graus]

Shog9 wrote:

My name, address, and # are in the phone book already.

Ain't it the truth. I never worry about any of that sort of stuff.

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