WHOIS Protection

[u-Bob]

1. If you own a couple hundred domains, most registrars will give you the whoisprivacy for free... or at least at a huge discount. Talk to your account manager.

2. $3.80 is enormously expensive for whoisprivacy. Again, talk to your account manager.

3. Be careful with Namecheap... Personally, I use them... got about 150 domains there, but I would never keep anything mission critical there (for the same reasons I wouldn't keep anything important at Godaddy).
- Prices are decent, but not great.
- Whois privacy doesn't always work (especially if you register a lot of domains at the same time... sometimes their system misses one). In the past it took about about 24hrs before it kicked in. They've fixed that now...
- Email forwarding (on whoisguard) is very flaky.
- They have a history of suspending controversial but legal domains after a single complaint.

4. to those using PO boxes: It depends why you need the whoisprivacy. If you need it to hide your identity, a PO box will do nicely. If you need it for SEO reasons, then a PO Box is useless.

5. Registrars with free privacy: Fabulous, Webair, Gandi.
REgistrars with cheap privacy: Moniker, Name (Name.com whois privacy is very flaky).