website help?

Astaroth

No, private listing is free... or at least it is with all the registers that I have used but for .uk domains at least you must be a private individual to have a hidden listing - if you are a company then you shouldnt be using a hidden listing as it is against the domain registration rules.

If your website is going to be commercial you should really have your physical address on it. Limited companies are now legally required to and it is highly recommended for sole traders and partnerships (many think it may become a legal requirement in the future for them too)

richt71

Astaroth wrote:

No, private listing is free... or at least it is with all the registers that I have used but for .uk domains at least you must be a private individual to have a hidden listing - if you are a company then you shouldnt be using a hidden listing as it is against the domain registration rules.

If your website is going to be commercial you should really have your physical address on it. Limited companies are now legally required to and it is highly recommended for sole traders and partnerships (many think it may become a legal requirement in the future for them too)

Maybe nominet (who regulate .co.uk) don't charge for privacy on co.uk but I've registered a lot of .com and even while buying via one of the 3 .com domain regulators theres a small charge if you want privacy of your details.

richt71

Here's an interesting overview of privacy:-

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Domain privacy is offered by several registrars such as Go Daddy, Network Solutions, eNom and so forth. A user buys privacy from the company, who in turn replaces the user's info in the whois with the info of a proxy service such as Domains by Proxy or Whois Privacy Protection Service.

However, this is not true anonymity. Personal information is collected by these registrars to provide the service. To some, registrars like Domains by Proxy take little persuasion to release so-called 'private' information to the world, requiring only a phone request or cease and desist letter.[1] [2] [3]

Others, however, treat privacy more seriously, and host domain names offshore, even using e-gold or money orders in transactions so that the registrar has no knowledge of the personal information about the domain name owner in the first place (which would otherwise be transmitted along with credit card transactions).[4] [5]

In March 2005, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration has said that all owners of .us domains will not have the option of keeping their information private, and that it must be made public.

Currently, the Internet Coalition for Assigned Names and Numbers ICANN broadly requires that the mailing address, phone number and e-mail address be made publicly available through the "Whois" directories. That policy enables spammers, direct marketers, identity thieves, or other attackers to loot the directory for personal information about domain name owners.

crossleydd42

You could always put just your postcode and house number, which would not reveal your address, but enable the Royal Mail to deliver any correspondence to you.

Kilty_2

crossleydd42 wrote:

You could always put just your postcode and house number, which would not reveal your address, but enable the Royal Mail to deliver any correspondence to you.

It'd reveal your address to anyone putting the house number and postcode into a LOT of different websites, plenty out there will give a full addresss for a number and postcode

Kevicho

Im almost 100% sure that any ecommerce sites by law now have to put on a returns address.

SOA is a complicated field, a few free tips
1) Make sure your information is relevant and you have plenty of it, search engines love text in your pages.
2) Original work fares better than say standard product descriptions for stock
3) In your title of the page, focus on the product/service or industry as opposed to the company name, i mean very few companies are big enough that people will search by name
4) Dont submit to sites which advertise 200 links for 20 quid or whatever, links are not what they used to be in seo terms, but if you can get good pages that are relevant to your industry (i.e. the federation of plumbers for a plumber) to link to you then all the better

Theres a lot more too it, but that should give you a small start

black-saturn

I run mine on http://www.mrsite.com and i've had no problems with it at all.