[Wftl-lug] Buy your privacy - don't register with godaddy.com!

[Ole Kofoed Hansen]

Charles McColm wrote:
> This is just a heads up to LUG members registering a domain.
> Godaddy.com actually charges you to protect your privacy if you
> register a domain name with them. When registering a domain they don't
> make it clear that your complete information is going to be submitted
> to ICANN. Most registrars list themselves as the point of contact,
> showing only your name and their info. Not godaddy.com.

If they were to put in themselves as contact for your domain, this would 
mean that anyone wanting to contact you would have to go through 
godaddy.com and godaddy.com would have to relay them to you. This is a 
service that requires staff, so godaddy.com is well within its rights to 
charge for it.

I would believe that those "most registrars" you are talking about, are 
web hotels as their primary business, so their default option is to 
register a domain for you but in their own name, so that you'll have to 
pay them to move the domain to another hotel.


Regards

Ole