Private domain registration

[Mike Tee]

Any of you guys familiar with the option for "private" domain name registrations?
Do you use it, and what are the benefits?

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[Pin]

What is Private?

[Jenny Kok]

Private means your details are not made public in Whois.

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[Al Mukmin]

The benefit is exactly what it is, privacy.

People can't just lookup your name, address and phone number thru whois info if they need something from you.

Most domain registrars give this for free, name.com etc

[Pin]

It is not too much of privacy for me... we have facebook, twitter which has
all our details all over net

It is more for the project concern, sometimes for the strategy thought of
that, marketing, competitors...

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[Mike Tee]

Yup, that's what I was trying to find out - any of the businesses here, or their clients, use the domain privacy option, and for what good reason?

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[George Lew]

To do illegal service is all that I can think of.

If you running a real business, why would you hide it? Those that using private domain only has 2 purposes:

1. Illegal Forex investment sites. 99% of those sites using private domain.

2. For company intranet where they don't want outsiders to kacau. This type of domain normally have IP filtering as well.


Best Regards,

George

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[Pin]

This is quite true

[Al Mukmin]

Georgew, I beg to differ.

Let's say I'm running a reselling business. (domain names, hosting etc). I have no office and operate from home to save on cost.

The business got successful, I have 100+ clients and all of the sudden, boom. Earthquake happened and all my customers are pissed off.

At this point of time, would I rather they look up my whois details and come to my home where my family resides?

or would I rather have them open support ticket and wait in line while I resolve the problem with the actual host?

To say that only scammers use Private whois is the furthest from the truth.

Most people don't like their names and home addresses available on the inter-web, and that includes me.

[Nasir Sobri]

if you deal with several registrars, it's a hassle to update all info
at once after major changes.

Plus, there's dot tel (.tel) to keep your most important business
contact info secure in the DNS as a backup during server catastrophes.

Good idea to keep various social media presence for customer too reach
you, instead of everything on a single point.

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[Jenny Kok]

Mel uses it for her site, it's nice not to have your name, address and telephon number published for the whole world to see, i suppose. 

on social media, you don't have to disclose info that you don't want to, that's the main difference, i think

2010/1/21 Mike Tee <mik...@gmail.com>

[George Lew]

Eventually when a business grow big, you will need an office, even it is a virtual one. (Else where you register your business?)

Private Domain also uses in blog or personal site where privacy is needed. (I'm just too asshole in the previous post :)

For business site especially ecommerce and affiliate sites...I will never buy from them if there's no proper validated info such as

Domain Registrant name, Hosting Location, SSL, dedicated IP (depends)

Best Regards,

George

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[Al Mukmin]

George, you don't need an office to register a business.

ANY type of addresses would do fine, I registered 5 businesses with SSM using the same home address, no problem at all.

and 99% of businesses tend to fail.

You can use escrow.com service for the larger website purchase 10k and up. I don't know why hosting location, SSL and dedicated IP matters. They all cost a mere $10/month and domain registrant name can be faked, EASILY. Just register a domain name using any name at shinjiru.com and they'll approve it. Believe me because I have tried.

In the end it's just a matter of preference.

[Coconect-The Other CRM]

Yeah man! I was not pleasantly surprised when i saw my handphone number there! sheesh, as if there's not enough data leakages & selling, I'm putting it up free rein for whole world to c. So NOT comfortable with that. 

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 7:10 PM, Jenny Kok <jenn...@gmail.com> wrote:

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[George Lew]

I wonder what business do not need contact - although it can be mainly rely on email contact, yet it is still contact.

Business fail never, but you give me the feeling is that: "so that my creditors can't find me if I remand private"

What's wrong showing my contact around if you really want business. It is like shutting your business opportunity.

One phone number for private network, one number for work...if you don't want 2 phones, 2 sim card etc.

My partner even use CTOS to check clients credit status before issuing any credit terms...

Apply a for skype number.

Best Regards,

George

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