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So after the domain has been bought, the company can obviously see who bought it and find out your true identity. Is this a problem? (an inevitable one).


You'd be surprised how prevalent fake identities are in this business.

Years ago, I owned a lot of domains. Some very good ones, in fact.

I had someone approach me to buy the domain, claiming they were a tiny 2-person startup.

Some Googling and talking to friends who owned domain names revealed that they were actually representing Microsoft.

It's very common for even multi-billion dollar corporations to pretend to be broke students/entrepreneurs/non-profits to get cheap prices on domain names.


You want to avoid price inflation before the deal has been completed.


I would guess the main reason for hiding your identity would be so the sellers don't overcharge. After its sold, it doesn't matter.


Correct. Though it't often easy enough to figure it out if it's related to an existing company.




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