Private registration of a domain

[Snowball]

Is it worth it, i am paying $20 a year for private registration so people can not do a whois and find out my home address etc.

What is your opinion?

[SOC]

I would say YES, privacy is certainly worth $20 a year. There are a lot of insane people on the Internet - Sunol, for example. Do you really want people like him knowing where you live?

[wolfpac181]

here's the free way
give Sun*l's addy for the domain registration:)

Easy to obtain the info from solicitor; Business name and shit, and threaten to report them to verisign. Did that once for dengbad, fuckers never call me anymore :( Love to give shit to outsourced spammers, kinda miss them now

[kleph]

i applaud your creativity and i believe that any number of zgeekers have that information but, since mr. bigotry is currently under a lot of official scrutiny at the moment, i would suggest seeking another option.

since i use my site for business and i need to have something there for folks to reach me my solution was to rent a post office box and use that for my contact info.

[druid]

Why would you put your real details in the registration form? Who's going to check them?

[SOC]

the internet police. they're everywhere. they're watching us now.

[kleph]

the IRS. all of my expenses come out of my taxes.

[druid]

Surely the receipts would satisfy the IRS or Inland Revenue.

[kleph]

as a freelancer, they are notoriously particular in what one claims. and, given the limited amount of funds i bring in, i can't take a chance.

but, if i am not mistaken, we are now hijacking the thread.