Private Domain Names
by: Jacky KongWhen
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 Go Daddy (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
Go Daddy'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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