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Anonymous Online Presence
Can you really be anonymous online? That’s the question that was posed to me recently by a client that’s wanting to put up a website, and be 100% completely untraceable back to who she is.
So here’s my take. Given enough time and money, anyone can be traced back to the source. But for the average Joe that’s ranting about political agendas, or making rude comments about their teachers, no one is going to spend the time, money and effort to find out who you really are.
So how do you hide the identity of your website? Most domain registrars, like GoDaddy , allow you to privatize your domain name, and for all intents and purposes, hides your identity. They put your real contact information into a proxy database, that allows a generic name to be found in the WHOIS database, but hides the real owner to the general public.
But there are two sources of real identify that you can’t hide (well, not legally!). And that is that to pay for your domain registration, and your hosting, each of them requires a credit card with a real name and address. So you really have to trust who you’re doing business with if you’re trying to hide who you really are. But beware, even the most trustworthy companies will have to turn over your data if it’s subpoenaed to do so.
The long and short of it is that for 99% of those that I deal with, GoDaddy’s private domain option is more than enough, and they have hosting
as well, so you can keep your real identity to a minimum number of places that need to know.
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