Domain Privacy Is Useless

It really is. It seems like a great concept, but it has a few drawbacks. Significant drawbacks…

Privacy is billed as a way to keep your information as registrant private. And it may keep it private at most whois websites. But it will only keep the average person from finding your info. The people that you don’t want to see your info are the ones who will be able to find it!

For example, a simple phone call to the registrar will probably get you whatever you want to know. And even better, Alexa just ignores privacy. Head over to alexa.com and type in your URL - on the overview page it will list all of your contact info!

There are also some tools out there, free of charge, that will show other URLs hosted on the same server. If you aren’t careful, that could be a dead giveaway.

Also, if you are doing something illegal, domain privacy won’t do you any good. But if you are trying to crack down on someone doing something illegal, it just adds another hassle you have to deal with.

Don’t waste your money. Signing up for domain privacy is pointless.

If you want to learn more, go through and read the legalese in the domain privacy agreement!

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