Whois protection: yay or nay? (1 Viewer)

[Cpvr]

As a website owner, do you enable whois protection on your domains everytime you purchase a new domain? Do you think it's a good idea to enable it to protect your privacy and keep your information private no matter what?

For me, I always keep it enabled through my domain providers. Especially, since it's offered for free and generally doesn't cost any extra to have it.


What about you? Do you use whois protection on your domains?

 

[Ravenfreak]

Since whois protection is free these days, I always make sure to turn on the feature. It sucked when you had to pay for this extra privacy though, so back in the day I didn't have it turned on because I didn't want to spend the extra money.

 

[Shawn Gossman]

I have always enabled domain privacy since it has first been offered.

At one time, domain privacy was considered to be a potential bad ranking factor for SEO. There were mixed messages from Google reps on hikinf your information on domain name registries. But Google cleared it up in recent times and it's perfectly fine to do it.

WhoIs Information: Is It A Google Ranking Factor?

Does WhoIs information – or using domain privacy – have any SEO implications? Learn what the experts say about WhoIs as a ranking factor.

www.searchenginejournal.com

I once disabled it for a company website I registered because I wanted to keep it really professional. Then the phone calls, emails, and letters to my PO Box started flowing in from domain renewal services. It got annoying and I enabled domain privacy to get them stopped but many still come because now they know my address and such.

I suggest you use it if it's offered to you. Also, it should be free because most registrars are offering it as a free service.