Private Domain Names
by: Jacky Kong
When you register a domain name, ICANN (the domain names governing body)
requires that your name, email address, mailing address, and phone number are
made publicly available. Anyone can see your personal information using a Whois
lookup anywhere and anytime. Spammers and junk mailers often search through the
Whois database to create mailing lists. That's right. Your personal information
is exposed 24 hours a day to these people.
The easiest solution to this problem is of course to use Private Domain Names
to protect your contact information.
How does Private Domain Names work?
This service will replace your contact information with the service
provider's. They will forward any correspondence to you, after filtering out all
the spams and junk emails. The cost for this service varies. My domain name
registrar GoDaddy (World Largest Domain Registrars) charges $8.95 per year for
this service. However, should you want to get some discount just like myself,
you could take up their Private Domain Name service at the point of registering
your domain name. If you did that, they will give you a big discount for the
domain name where you only need to pay $1.99.
Domains by Proxy
GoDaddy's Private Domain Names service is provided by Domains by Proxy. The
member control panel in Domains by Proxy is very simple and straight forward.
Basically, it is as easy as logging in and tell the system where to forward
correspondences to.
After you have your domain name protected by Domains by Proxy, all your
private information will not be shown in Whois search. Your privacy is thus
protected!
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