I strongly recommend using your registrar's WHOIS privacy unless the domain is actually owned by a commercial entity. Unfortunately, the operator of the .org gTLD does not allow it. You would have to use some other gTLD (like .com or .net) to enable that feature. You can certainly use a throwaway web address to combat e-mail SPAM...
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hardware- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anthony Q. Martin > Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 2:19 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [H] URL Registration > > > > > At 12:04 PM 1/24/2008, you wrote: > >>Is it worthwhile to not have contact info published in connection > with the > >>domain name registration? Whois claimes this eliminates spam.... > > > > not unless you want to hide for some reason. You will get spam but > only at > > the contact address... so use a throwaway web address for that > > No, not trying to hide. My e-mail will be on the website anyway. I > just > don't want any *extra* spam because of this. My emails are already on > the > web anyhow. > > Thanks.
