Mike Lyon wrote:
Howdy,
I am curious what others in the industry think on this topic. When one registers a domain they can put in their real information or they can use a proxy, like Go-Daddy's Domains By Proxy.
Now, personally, I would prefer just to get a PO Box and put that address on my domain info instead of doing a proxy. I could also put down a phone number in the registration that just goes to my general business phone line which is just a DVR.
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What's the difference between using a proxy vs using a PO Box except that a PO Box is cheaper?
As others have already said, it doesn't really provide any security. In addition, it makes the company doing it appear amateurish. One expects professional behavior from a company. There are certainly reasons one might choose to obscure the ownership of a domain, but none of them are sound business reasons. For the sake of your management, pick a few domains at random, do a whois on them, and print them out, as examples of grown up companies (I chose lockheed.com, microsoft,com, google.com, and revlon.com myself).
I'd just like to get thoughts from others to see what the general feeling is on this topic.
Just tell them no, in the most diplomatic way possible (lucky for them it's you and not me, since I am not always so diplomatic as I ought to be). As a quick aside, I did see someone advise you that you could use the fedgov do not call list for your phone, but if it's a business phone, you cannot. -- I tried being reasonable once. I didn't like it. Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't teach eight cats to pull a sled. Stupid is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.