[aeden]

Don't use your home address in whois, period. Use a business address. If you have a site that is lucrative then you have enough to pay for a PO box or an office space. There are plenty of companies that will provide on demand office space and take and forward mail for a couple hundred dollars per month or less.

[pjc50]

You don't have to get popular for this. All kinds of people can be the victim of targeted harassment campaigns. Such as indie game developers.

[salesguy222]

Thank you very much, I completely agree. The arguments that people should either pay up for WHOIS protection or use a publishing platform is like choosing between being extorted by the crips or the bloods!

[salesguy222]

I respect the information you have provided, but there is no reason in my mind that I should need to pay a couple hundred dollars for an address, or registration for a business etc

the reason for this is that I am a non-Serbian citizen living in Serbia right now, where most people have monthly expenses of $300!! :)

[weavie]

Does it realistically matter if you don't use a correct address?

I ask because I have a number of domains still registered to an old home address. I have never bothered to update them due to laziness and privacy concerns - but the domains keep working.

There has never been an attempt to verify the address.