Comments on: Stop Using WHOIS Privacy and 3 Other Strategies For Increasing Your Website’s Credibility

By: On hold messages

On hold messages — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:13:05 +0000

I think if you do as suggested and use the street address of the post office with the PO Box number as a quite you are violating terms of use from Internic. You would be better off to just use the PO Box. Although to be honest that is the dilemma. If you use your home address people could show up at your doorstep true. But if I was a consumer and saw a company I wanted to do business with that used a PO Box I would be more suspicious than if it was private.

By: No utilices el Whois privado y otras estrategias para incrementar la credibilidad online, Carrero

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:03:39 +0000

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By: Lex

Lex — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 16:10:46 +0000

There is no reason at all not to have a privately registered domain, regardless of the scope of your online activity. We use private Who.is services but make our contact information available to those who might need it. Our business depends on people trusting us to send many Thousands of $ of equipment for review and not once has a private who.is been an issue.

By: Adam Arnold

Adam Arnold — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 09:53:13 +0000

So that is how those spammers know I need viagra… ermmm I mean know how to find me!

First things first, define your business model before implementing anything!

By: Lepki

Lepki — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 02:03:31 +0000

I’ll put my support behind the dedicated IP strategy.
Spend a few extra dollars, have your own IP to play in, because as much as some may say that sharing an IP with a less desirable site not affect credibility (or ranking), why would you one even want to test this theory?

By: flathood

flathood — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:26:20 +0000

Got any data support this? Has anyone run a test of public vs private domain registrations to see exactly how they compare?

By: Gary Stubbs

Gary Stubbs — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:10:01 +0000

Thansk Blair, I wish I would have had this ealier, as I went with the individual IP Adress and secure SSL on my other site, and yes it was a real Pain!!

By: Adney

Adney — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:10:00 +0000

thanks Blair. Anyway, I still use Privacy Protect due of spamming activities problem.. Your suggestion to use special email to monitor any domain is one of the way that I’ll use soon.. thanks again

By: Jim Munro

Jim Munro — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:30:13 +0000

Good points. Funny, I have a PO for my biz and I never really thought of doing this. It’d be nice to save the money on each registration anyway and use it to register for a 2nd year.

99designs or Elance are probably a good source to get custom graphics and logos if you don’t know where to start. I’m considering this for an upcoming project. Most efforts at piecing together stock photos usually look like pieced together stock photos.

Thanks for posting!

By: Exigius

Exigius — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:18:11 +0000

I’ve used the variation “Box XXX” for years with no trouble. It looks like a rural address. I’m with 1&1 now because they provide free privacy on domains and I just don’t want the junk mail. Used to be with GoDaddy but I got tired of the slutty ads. People ought to have a p.o. box these days anyway. Get the smallest size, it’s cheap, open 24/7, and keeps the weirdos and junk mail away from you and stops identity thieves from grabbing your mail before you get home.

By: Lydia Groove

Lydia Groove — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:07:25 +0000

Some of us are still trying to hold down the day job to pay the bills and worry about the employer finding ouy. In the UK it is possible to check the proper owner’s name and address of any PO box.

By: Blair Williams

Blair Williams — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:35:12 +0000

On the global Internet, only a small percentage of people will know anything about the prestige of one location over another for your specific city … so I’d say it doesn’t matter — just as long as it doesn’t appear to be a PO Box number.

By: MrWes

MrWes — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:27:11 +0000

I was sold on the private domain thing too. I love your suggestion about using a P.O. Box as an address. I already planned on changing over the contact email information. Do you think the location of the P.O. Box matters?

Thanks again for the tips.

By: Blair Williams

Blair Williams — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:40:49 +0000

Hmm… that’s odd, these trolls are usually caught by my comment spam filter…

Kevin — I’M WORKING ON IT ALREADY!!!! Gees … cut me some slack …

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:30:12 +0000

Yes, your outlandishly bad graphics is why I don’t read your blog. Wait, I think I just got caught reading it

Good post, these are all excellent tips!

By: Blair Williams

Blair Williams — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:42:32 +0000

I think I’m spending $30 / year on my PO Box — so yeah, at GoDaddy you’d have to be using more than 6 domain names (I’m at about 60 domain names though) before it would be monetarily worth while … but if you’re actually planning on making money on your website then the $30 investment is one you should make whether its cheaper or not.

I still have several domain names that are still private — but as they come up for renewal I’m getting rid of the privacy on them.

By: Seshu

Seshu — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:43:43 +0000

Interesting perspective. I bought into the PRIVATE domain registration model only because I hadn’t thought of getting a PO Box. Cheaper than PRIVATE DOMAIN registrations across 30+ domains, no? Thanks for this blog post.