The internet is a wonderful thing, except for a few small details. When you register your first domain name, you get your introduction to one of them. There's a lot of information they want. Your name, your email address, your physical address, your phone number. For each of 4 separate categories, and Registrant, Admin and Technical categories are publicly available (for almost all TLDs - Top Level Domains, with possible exception of .ws - Western Samoa).

Email addresses, which must be valid, phone numbers and physical addresses which also must be valid. I personally think it's both absurd and dangerous to make this information so easily available. Once again right to privacy of law-abiding individuals is being abridged supposedly to help catch lawbreakers. Since this information would be provided under a court order, making it publicly available just invites abuse.

Spammers, scammers, stalkers and idle whacko can easily get this information. And it's a nice start on identity theft, too. However, for most people, most likely result is an increase in amount of spam you get. But, much worse can and has happened.

So what solutions are there? Basically there two ways to protect your privacy if you are a private individual without access to a legal entity such as a company to own domain name (note that if it is a company, you must provide accurate information. This only moves problem to a slightly less personal level).

First you could lie. No, that's not one of ways. Unwise and illegal too, and you are a law-abiding type, right? So, first, a proxy registration is one alternative.

Essentially you make a binding legal agreement with a company which will register domain name as if they owned it and then provide their own information to meet requirements. For each domain, they will set-up a special email which they will monitor and forward to you, usually after spam filtering, if you want them to.

They, of course, retain your data and will also monitor physical mail. You will be notified of first class mail which appears to or could be legal documents or if registered or couriered mail arrives. They will, for a fee, ship such to you, if you agree and pay. Generally such items would be sent by courier. Phone callers will be directed to use email or physical address shown in WhoIs record

"Permission Email Marketing", only way to market your business via Email without getting yourself into trouble and giving you ability to stay in touch and build a ongoing relationship with your customers and/or subscribers.

The only question is... is email still a reliable vehicle to deliver your marketing messages to your potential customers and/or subscribers?

With rising concerns of SPAM, Blacklisting, Email Filters, and CAN-SPAM laws, it's getting Harder and Harder for legitimate "Permission Email Marketers" to reach there Target audiences with there Product or Service offers.

The end result is... "Time Wasted" and "Loss of Profits".

Is your online business suffering from this?

Only you can answer that.

Email used to be MOST effective form of direct marketing online at one time before everybody started abusing it and there guidelines.

Don't get me wrong, email still is effective, question is... how effective?

The benefit to marketing with email was that you were able to get your marketing message infront of your Target audiences within a matter of minutes with a single click of your mouse, which at one time made MANY marketers "Buckets-Of-Money" literally over night.

Email WAS answer at that time, but, what's solution for future of "Permission Email Marketing"?

Is there an answer to this rising problem with Email?

I'll give you three letters... RSS!

Yes, there is a solution for "Permission Email Marketers" and/or for any online business owner who uses email to stay in touch with there customers and/or subscribers and that is RSS(Rich Site Summary or Real Simple Syndication).