Comments on: Do I Need Domain Privacy Protection

By: Cari

Cari — Sun, 26 Jun 2022 11:17:15 +0000

My renewal on GoDaddy is about to happen and the protection is $59.98 for 2 years. I would be happy if it was under $10 a year, but I’m looking at $30.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 01:37:33 +0000

Here a part of one discussion I found regarding:
“The reason for this is because according to ICANN, whoever is listed as the Whois registrant becomes the rightful owner. When Whois Privacy is enabled, your registrar uses their own business information as Whois info.”

By: Coco

Coco — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 21:16:09 +0000

I didnt read this at first. I signed up with Bluehost two days ago and waited one day before purchasing the privacy protection. I’ve gotten a lot of phone calls from all around the world. It’s hard to work and stay focused when my phone keeps ringning. My email box is full of junk. Do they sell the infos?

By: Garen

Garen — Fri, 09 Dec 2016 07:23:31 +0000

In reply to Iain.

Is not so much the privacy that we need. Really, don't mind my address being online, my telephone number, etc. It's just the fact that I don't like dealing with unwanted solicitation. Like a lot of people, it isn't an issue until your website becomes successful.

By: Garen

Garen — Fri, 09 Dec 2016 07:19:27 +0000

In reply to Mike.

Hey Mike,

Sounds like a good plan. Especially if your on a limited budget. Could always disregard it until you get tired of the spam.

By: Garen

Garen — Fri, 09 Dec 2016 07:12:15 +0000

In reply to Gaylene Nepia. Good to see that you're using privacy protection. I wish I could stop getting SEO companies contacting me via my contact us page. Really does get old getting all these SEO proposals.

By: Gaylene Nepia

Gaylene Nepia — Thu, 08 Dec 2016 20:45:43 +0000

I have Privacy Protection on 4 of my domains and as you said, it’s worth the extra cost. I’ll look at making my other domains private, if and when I need to.

Thanks for the information.

By: Iain

Iain — Wed, 07 Dec 2016 08:51:34 +0000

A very informative article on domain name protection and you present a very thorough and detailed perspective. One thing I’m curious about though, and hope you might be able to answer for me is this: why are so many people concerned about privacy these days? I mean, what’s to really hide that we need all this protection?

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 07 Dec 2016 08:51:19 +0000

Hi Garen,

Thanks for a really informative and interesting post. I must admit, having set up a few websites recently, I have overlooked domaim privacy and didn’t really consider it. The biggest challenge is, when you have a limited budget, finding cash for various extra expenses – I will be sure to look at this once my cash flow is slightly healthier.

Cheers,

Mike

By: Garen

Garen — Mon, 05 Dec 2016 07:06:13 +0000

In reply to Ruka.

You can use Spam Assassin. It’s a feature in cPanel that helps reduce the amount of spam. https://spamassassin.apache.org/

Another good practice is to change your MX records to your email address. This reduces the workload on your servers. I have written about it here: https://blog.tbwhs.com/changing-mx-records-to-gmail-and-yahoo/