August 14th, 2010

Public vs. Private Domain Registration

Categories: Blog, Web Development

domainregBy Sarah Reed

Whether you are an individual looking to make a website for your business or a company making another website for a new brand or product, you have the choice to register your domain name publicly or privately.

The main factor to consider in this decision is the results of the “Who Is Lookup.” A “Who Is Lookup” is like a domain name search engine: you type in a domain name and it tells you if the domain name is registered, who it is registered to and when it will expire.

When registering a domain name you need to enter contact information such as a phone number, email address and street address. If you are a company, you should use the company’s information to do this and therefore when the “look up” is done, only the company information will be visible.

However, if you are an individual, you will need to use your personal contact information to register the domain. This is when you might want to consider a private registration. While it is an additional cost, registering a domain privately ensures that your personal information isn’t visible to anyone simply looking up your domain.

As a company, we don’t use private registration when buying domain names, but if you are concerned about your personal information being available for all to see, then you might want to consider paying the extra fee to keep your privacy more secure.

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