Why Pay Extra to Cloak Your Email Address When You Register Your Domain Name?

It is truly unfortunate that the companies responsible for domain names make you pay to cloak your e-mail address so that spammers won't get it and send thousands of spams to you every day. It seems unfortunate that you ought to have to pay for someone else who is manipulating the domain title registration companies. It would make sense that the domain name registration companies would stop spider bots, which come in and scrape all the e-mail addresses using their entire system.

But since the domain name registration companies do not block out these people or try to skip trace them to catch them since they're spamming people illegally, we all now have to pay extra money to cloak our e-mail address in the domain name registration public lists. Why should we have to pay? There isn't any reason these companies cannot simply hide the e-mail addresses from the open public. That makes no sense at all and they want to charge a yearly fee. This is criminal in my opinion.

On one hand we now have the Federal Trade Commission, which is unable to rid the world of spam and then we have the domain name registration companies refusing to try and limit people trying to get your e-mail address from their databases. It seems to me that this is an identity theft issue and the scraping of e-mail addresses is used in illegal behavior and then the Federal Trade Commission should do something about it. There is no reason that individuals should have to pay to hide their e-mail address.

And to charge people between nine and $18 each year to hide your e-mail address on their domain name registration company's database is completely outrageous. They just are looking for a way to make more money and socket towards the consumer, without taking responsibility for protecting their customer's identity. It seems truly unfortunate that we suffer from this and nothing is being done and still the consumer has to pay for through the nose. Please consider this in 2006.

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