What is an anonymous or private domain name registration and why should I get it?
All registered domain names must have contact information. With this, anyone can go to a Whois site, type in your domain name, and find out all of the information you registered the domain name with. This includes your full name, home address and even your telephone number. Godaddy.com offers this example of the information pulled up on public and private domain names. If your web site is primarily going to be for a business, it isn’t usually a problem, as such contact information is available anyway through many mediums; just make sure to register the domain name with your business’s contact information and not your personal. Personal web sites, however, might not want such sensitive information out there for anyone on the web to grab. To remedy this problem, dole out the extra cash for a private or anonymous domain name registry. GoDaddy.com offers this feature for $8.95 extra per domain name. Your personal registry information is kept hidden, and anyone doing a Whois search would se
