Privacy and Public Domain
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Feed links don’t change: you get a new feed at Whatever.com/feed in addition to the existing one. Most people find it beneficial to encourage subscribers to switch over to the “new” feed, though, for branding reasons.
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Okay! Thanks for all the help! I’ll let you know what happens when I put in the new password and such.
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Okay, it brought me to a domain manager, but it doesn’t look as though there’s anything I need to do there. I suppose if I had a second website that I wanted to bring in under the domain, that might be when I’d need to use it?
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go post somewhere else instead of mine but I’m still confused will I be able to hide my privacy through the privacy settings. and I still don’t wanna sit there all day an add in names of people that can come in. plus I don’t have my real name filled out on anything I have my cp name. and my email dosent have my real name and I’m ok cause that’s not even my real email so am I safe
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@deliburger12 Was that directed at me? I didn’t intend to hijack the thread — sorry ’bout that. It was related, though, in that it was about registering a domain & privacy, and your original questions appeared to have been completely answered. I apologize if I trod wrong here!
I’m not sure exactly what your last question is. As airodyssey, auxclass, and raincoaster have all pointed out above, yes, you can have a blog set to private & still have a registered domain name. You can register your domain and pay an extra $8 to keep your identity unlisted. Whether you have your own domain or not, if you have a private blog, you are going to have to add the names of wordpress users allowed to access your blog. If a person you want to have access to your blog does not already have a wordpress account, you can send them an invitation to sign up at wordpress. Once they have an account (and they can sign up for a user account only, and not a blog), then you can add them to your blog. The process for letting people view a private blog will be the same regardless of the domain — wordpress.com or your own domain.
Hope that was a helpful recap for you!
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PS – yet again – you can have a hidden registration name and a blog that is open to eveyone (just link your current blog is)
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As mmadfan pointed out earlier, when you register a domain name, you’re required by law to provide your name, phone number, email address, and mailing address.
By law, this information must also be made public via a whois search.
Adding Private Registration to your domain name elects a third-party to hold your domain, thus publicly displaying their information via a whois search rather than yours.
This is quite different from just making your blog private. If you register your domain without Private Registration, but set your blog as Private, your information will still be available via a whois search.
The opposite is also true. A Privately Registered domain can still link to a public site.
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@mmadfan
thx I was sorry I got mad. you are the only one that actually gave me a yes or no answers that iv been looking for on the 10000 forums I posted.staff-blorbo
I have a question for you. so if I get the privacy domain do I HAVE to add in the people I want to see my site or is there any way they can find my site on google i want it to be publin but hide my personal info. so can I can just hide the settings my moms so worried cause you know nowadays and she want me to be same -
@deliburger — no problem — I could see how it might feel to come to a thread you started and see all these other posts that end up going astray from the original topic.
I know you asked this of macmanx, but it’s perfectly possible to have a public blog, searchable to search engines and which anyone can access & keep your identity private. I’ve had a blog under the pseudonym MMADfan either here or elsewhere since June 2007, and I’ve never had anyone contact me under any of my “real” emails or anything like that. I now just upgraded to my own domain name, and I chose to have the private registration so that the last four years of anonymity doesn’t disappear.
I think as long as you keep separate email addresses and separate registrations for your pseudonymous activity, and are careful about not letting out your real i.d. to people, you should be fine.
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Yes, as mentioned, you can still have a publicly accessible blog, even if you purchase Private Registration for your domain name.
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