Michael, how much extra money are they demanding to "unlist" your address (same thing you referred to as private registration)? Domain name sellers associated with Google apps offer domain names for USD 9.99 and there does not seem to be any additional cost.

By the way, if you have a Google Voice account, you might want to change your registration and give them your Google Voice number instead of going through the trouble of changing your registrar.
Source(s):
http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=48090#O

http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=53929

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I think it's worth it to pay a little extra in order to maintain your privacy. Like you said, whenever your information is made public on the internet, telemarketers and other unwanted solicitors will find it.

I know for many hosting services, including the one I use for my site, offer free domain privacy when you register a domain with them. It's $10 for the domain name and the privacy feature is included.
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Is it worth the $5 extra? I don't know. It could be if you have a really high traffic domain name like Mahalo (I'll be Jason didn't blink at the extra $5), but if you're average joe with a normal domain and normal amount of traffic, its probably not worth it. If you have multiple domains the $5 adds up...

I have a few domains and give the phone number as my Jfax.com (or Efax.com) number. This is a FREE fax number that can also be used for voicemail. Anytime I HAVE to give a phone number on a email form and I KNOW they won't be calling me for anything good (like Quickbooks registration, Microsoft.com or whatever) I use this number.

Over the years I have NEVER gotten a real call about my domains.

As for email, I use an old email address that I don't check often so email doesn't matter.

Real Mail - yes, I get 1-2 pieces of snail mail every couple of months or so. That doesn't bother me at all.

So yes and no.
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www.efax.com
www.jfax.com

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I use name.com and they don't charge for private registration.

I personally have started using private registration ever since one of my domains was attacked. After someone got mad at me in a webmaster forum, they click-bombed (continually clicking AdSense ads) my site. After that I wanted to make sure that if some idiot got mad at me they wouldn't be able to get to my other sites easily.
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If you register with 1and1.com, private registration is free. .com domains are $6.99 for 1st year ($8.99 after that, I think). I am not affiliated w/ 1and1 in any way, other than as a customer.
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http://1and1.com

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Although it's against the rules, you can put false data in there. No verification process is ever performed unless there is a criminal investigation, but you will probably be in more trouble if your contact information is false in that case.
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well it really depends where you are really interested in having actual privacy or just a false adherence of privacy. For example, according to nodaddy.com godaddyit will immediately give out your Private information in a heartbeat. For more on this. Please read the following url nodaddy.com
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nodaddy.com

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