Ever since domains became deregulated there have been scams to mislead domain owners into moving their domain registrar!

Today, I received an email from Dave Woroch the VP, Sales and Support for Tucows who makes recommendations for protecting domain owners against the domain scammers.I only disagree with him on the point of what is called "Domain Privacy"!

The reason is Google doesn't like Domain Privacy because it 's a common spam tactic to make it harder for people to find them to complain. There are also other arguements that don't have as much to do with Search Engine Optimization like there are many people that won't do business with companies that hide their contact info. I've always been a fan of making it as easy as possible to have people find you and that certainly includes allowing them to use "Whois" to find accurate current contact information.

I suppose if you don't care about electronic marketing, possibly for a personal domain, then by all means hide behind a cloaked domain! 

In any regard,  Dave does present some good information so I'm publishing it verbatium below: