# Domain Registration -- Private?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/domain-registration-private/52331>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [January 12, 2006, 9:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/domain-registration-private/52331 "2006-01-12T21:57:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![wksmall](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/b38774/32.png) [@wksmall](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/wksmall)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2006, 9:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/domain-registration-private/52331/1 "2006-01-12T21:57:57Z")

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The domain registration companies are pushing an add-on called ‘Private  
Registration’  
where they keep your email and other personal info secret to prevent  
spam. Is this a good  
deal? Is it needed? Do you have it? Do you wish you did?

Warren

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**Author:** ![wksmall](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/b38774/32.png) [@wksmall](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/wksmall)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2006, 10:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/domain-registration-private/52331/2 "2006-01-12T22:55:33Z")

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I’ve never bought into it, and haven’t had any problem.

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**Author:** ![wksmall](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/b38774/32.png) [@wksmall](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/wksmall)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2006, 11:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/domain-registration-private/52331/3 "2006-01-12T23:04:41Z")

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On Thu, Jan 12, 2006, Warren S. wrote:

> The domain registration companies are pushing an add-on called ‘Private Registration’  
> where they keep your email and other personal info secret to prevent spam. Is this a good  
> deal? Is it needed? Do you have it? Do you wish you did?

I get on the order of 5-10 messages a day to addresses that exist only  
in my DNS record. My spam filtering works pretty well, it’s not worth  
the money I’d spend on the ‘private’ domain registration.

Pointless, in my opinion.

Ben

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**Author:** ![wksmall](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/b38774/32.png) [@wksmall](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/wksmall)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2006, 11:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/domain-registration-private/52331/4 "2006-01-12T23:26:15Z")

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On Jan 12, 2006, at 2:02 PM, Ben B. wrote:

> Pointless, in my opinion.
> 
> Ben  
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pointless += 1

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**Author:** ![wksmall](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/b38774/32.png) [@wksmall](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/wksmall)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2006, 10:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/domain-registration-private/52331/5 "2006-01-12T22:58:35Z")

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On 12 Jan 2006, at 20:55, Warren S. wrote:

> The domain registration companies are pushing an add-on called  
> ‘Private Registration’ where they keep your email and other  
> personal info secret to prevent spam. Is this a good deal? Is it  
> needed? Do you have it? Do you wish you did?

We sometimes get mail from “The Domain Registry of America” trying to  
get us to renew our domains with them at an outrageous price. Apart  
from that we’ve had no bother.

## Yours, Craig

Craig W. | t: +44 (0)131 516 8595 | e: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid  
[Xeriom.NET](http://Xeriom.NET) | f: +44 (0)131 661 0689 | w: [http://xeriom.net](http://xeriom.net)