Disgusted
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I was thinking of taking up wordpress offer of making my blog a .com. Until i read that it would cost an extra 8 bucks to keep my details private. I am totally disgusted with you for not keeping my details private as part of the deal. I am seriously wondering whether I should remain with this blog site if you are going to be blah-zay with peoples details. No wonder there is so much fraud when people pull tricks like this, our details should be private without question.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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You do realise that other domain companies are the same, you have to pay more to keep your details private.
Before paying a domain from wordpress, it’s always best to search for the best deals.
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I am totally disgusted with you for not keeping my details private as part of the deal.
Here’s the link for contacting Staff. http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/ I’m providing as Volunteers answering support questions do not make policy here or anywhere else that I’m aware of. I’m quite sure you do not want to be in the unenviable position of sounding like a person who expresses disgust re: business practices to us your fellow members rather than to Staff.
Before you contact Staff as you are clearly inexperienced with such matters I would like you to consider this reality. Paying extra for “private” registration of a domain is not limited to WordPress.com. In fact, it’s common practice everywhere. Also note that the charge of only $5. per year for a domain name is a fabulous low cost deal.
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@noirciplume is correct. All domain registrars charge extra for doing a private registration, and with my domain registrar, it costs a lot more than $8 to keep my domain registration details private – $14.95 per year in fact for each as I remember it.
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Im sorry ladies and gents you miss the point. The default position should be that you opt out of keeping you details private and that the fee should be inclusive not an add on. I have found that where it is an add on detail can accdently leak. If there is no choice about privacy then there cannot be an accedent.
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@photomi7ch
I assure you that I did not miss your point. You are unhappy and you are choosing to share that unhappiness here ie. venting, rather than delivering your feedback to the top. Volunteers do not make such decisions. Here’s the link again for contacting Staff when they reactivate the support link. http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/ -
You need to read through this entry at Wikipedia. You are barking at the wrong tree ICANN rules say that the domain registration information MUST be public although they are struggling with changes to allow for more privacy. Read through especially the section on “The Need for Privacy” and “Litigation.”
Although you are not likely to get into litigation issues, this particular paragraph should give you pause on private registration until the rules are changed.
In a trademark infringement case, a 2009 United States District Court ruling in U.S.A. held that, for domains with “private registration”, the privacy service is legally the “owner” of the domain. The privacy service acts as the “cyber-landlord of the Internet real estate”, and the domain is “licensed” to the customer of the privacy service.
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Perhaps a commodity—
at any rate:
Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.
Marshall McLuhanI’ll close this thread as there is nothing else to say…
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