Is Whoisguard Worth It? Protect Your Private Information.

hen you purchase a new domain name, Namecheap (I don't know about others) usually adds their Whoisguard service as a bonus. You get it for free for one full year.

Because it is free, you just take it and that's it. You forget it.

Now, after that one year has passed, they mail you and ask if you want to renew their Whoisguard service.

So the question arises - I Whoisguard Worth it?

Should I use Whoisguard?

How does it help me?

That is what happened to me. I had no idea.

I asked somebody and he answered that it was not needed. Therefore, I dropped it.

However, now I think it is better to have it. And because it's not expensive, I better purchase it.

Let me explain and see if you agree.

When you purchase a new domain name, Namecheap (probably other domain name registrars too), they require you to fill in all your personal information:

your name, your address, phone no, email, etc.

The problem is that all that information is easily and freely accessible, when you don't use Whoisguard (or a similar service).

I give you an example:

Go to http://checkpagerank.net/ and type the URL of your site. After that, hit "Check Domain"

Try it out. Costs you nothing.

They take their time to analyze your site. Then, they provide you the results.

When you scroll right to the bottom, you see whether your personal information is protected or not.

If it is not protected, you will see something like this:

In fact, the list is way longer and it publishes your private information quite a few times.

Do you like it?

I leave you to answer.

However, if your personal information is protected, the only thing you see is something like this (to give you an example, I pick an already protected site):

That's what you will see.

Bottom line:

Try it out. See if your personal information shows up. If it does, probably you want to protect yourself, right?

You don't want your personal address or phone number being public, do you?

That's why they recommend to use Whoisguard - to protect your personal information.

Luckily, it is NOT expensive. Look:

Let's do the numbers. 2.65 a year makes 0.007 cents a day. For your protection.

Therefore, is Whoisguard worth it?

I think so.

Or what do you think? Please leave your thoughts in the comment section below.