Private registration of domain name

[ADJATAY]

I have a very short query here regarding domain names.

Why is it necessary to do private registration of domain name ?

What is the risk if we have normal domain name registration ? Please help.

[Calvin K]

Private registration of domain name because when you register a domain, your name, address, email address and phone number are immediately made available to anyone who wants to see them. The Whois allows lookup of personal domain registration details. If you wanna check anyone's details, just go to whois.domaintools.com and enter the name of a website that already exists. You will get all details of that domain including the owners phone numbers, address, etc. Domain registrar allows users to run this WHOIS information. So it is necessary to have private registration of domain name to get protect your self.

[Techno01]

Private Registration populates the public WHOIS listing for your domain name registration with alternate contact information:

• Email Address
  • To help protect you from people who "mine" and sell the information in the WHOIS database, the email address listed in the WHOIS will use a random and unique email address. This email address will use the suffix "@domaindiscreet.com" and will change every 10 days. Email messages received at this address will be filtered for spam and forwarded to your designated email account.
  
  
• Postal Address
  • To stop junk mail and protect the privacy of your home address, the postal address displayed in your WHOIS listing will be a PO Box address in care of DomainDiscreet.com. Certified and overnight mail will be forwarded to the Account Holder address of record.
  
  
• Phone Number
  • To help prevent telemarketing, the phone number listed will be answered by Register.com's Customer Support, who will instruct the caller how to contact you via the email address or PO Box listed in the WHOIS.

Source: help.register

[Praetor]

The Internet's governing body, ICANN, requires that every domain owner's name and contact information be listed in an online database. Unfortunately, many solicitors regularly go through this database to gather contacts for marketing campaigns. If you choose a registrar like Moniker, GoDaddy, domainregister, etc,, you can do private register of your domain name at very low costs.

If you go with Yahoo for private registration, their partner Melbourne IT updates your registration listing with generic contact information that points to Melbourne IT's offices.Whenever someone looks up your domain and tries to contact you, Melbourne IT receives the call, email, or letter and screens the information on your behalf.Melbourne IT forwards prescreened communications to you, so you can reply as you see fit.

[david6]

private registration of domain name is other people cannot see your website , only certain people can watch, for normal domain name registration every body can watch your website , to get registered you can go here and you can get registered here , it is very good at service and its cost also normal.