is it legal to use a pseudonym when regerstering for a free internet service?
818139
Read the agreement or rules.  If it isn't, it will say so.
586835
no, that is an understanding, if you (not you personally, figure of speech) feel the need to not be known, then a free service is not for you. If you mail a letter, the USPS, and everyone who sees it knows your name and address, if you make a phone call, your info is captured, every form of communications, you would have to live in a cave under a rock to not be availiable. It is one of the things we tolerate for our freedom
532376
It depends on which country you live in. Recent court cases in western countries including the united states the uk and canada now outlaw the act of stealing a copyright name of anything in an attempt to either sell or fail to use the domain.
393472
Technically yes (although legally difficult concept as yet) but it is also insecure so your data may be unsafe - the 'owner' of the network could be intercepting your data.
572992
This is called spam, and it's against the policy of most Internet Service providers.  It will get you into trouble.  It's also not a very effective form of advertising.\n\nGood luck.
441466
Yes - Even if YOU don't say your name is... (Let's say "Lisa,") your friend may leave a comment on your site saying something like "Hey, Lisa, Great Party at Ralf's Friday Night!"\n\nIf your friend lists information about themselves, anyone can figure out who you are, where you live, etc...\n\nBe safe - if you're under 18, use EXTREME CAUTION, or, do the safest thing of all - don't use myspace at all.
517510
I wouldn't want to use my real name. With so much technology out there, it's frightening to think what someone could do with info even as small as your name.
736016
If *you* registered the domain name, it is *yours* during the registered period. I don't see why you would have to "buy it back" from any body, unless it was hijacked from you. \n\nPerhaps you need to explain the entire situation for us to offer better advice.
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You can have a website without your identity being known. What you need to do is to opt for a private registration when registering your domain name. As such no one will know who truly owns the website except the registrars.\n\nYou can find a step-by-step guide on starting your own internet business at\n\nhttp://www.getyourebook.com\nhttp://www.getyourebook.com/sitesell\n\nFor internet marketing tips and tricks try\n\nhttp://www.getyourebook.com/imc-course\n\nThe above gives details on the credit card processing etc.
20737
I already replied to the similar question today. I reiterate what I was writing as follows:\n\nYou know, adding so called free or even non-free commercial proxies which pretend to "hide" your ip address could be even more dangerous, because some proxies / hosts potentially collect and effectively track your activities to re-sell it to advertizers or, worse, hackers. Do not be fooled by the fact, that you use them couple months and nothing bad yet happend. It could be just work in progress to find someting more useful among your bytes transmitted via their ip's.\n\nAnother approach is to install virtual machine on your existing hosting operational system, for example, vmware (vmplayer is free, and vmware is not).\nAlso, you can set it READ ONLY mode, therefore, hacker cannot compromise your offline data. YOu can attach USB key, write into it, and immediately disattach it, when it's not needed anymore.\n\nAlso, you can boot your computer from any of LiveCD (many linuxes allow you to do this: knoppix, ubuntu, etc), and beforehand, adjusting your BIOS to stop your hard drives.\n\nMore heavy solution could be to install tor and privoxy into your computer, and then adjust your browser proxy setting accordingly.\nhttp://tor.eff.org/\nhttp://www.privoxy.org/\nIt's more trusted authority, but it can make your traffic really slow. Also, it's not absolutely secure, but is absolutely the best what is available today.\nThe drawback is that using this service very often could be also an indicator of your potentially criminal activity in case such tracking iS LEGALLY authorized by some reason (for exampe, to collect evidences).\n\nPersonally, I prefer LiveCDs or vmWare vmplayer to check my online banking.
315131
not sure of any exact laws but as long as you are not lying about something or plagiarizing you should be fine, also if you are posting adult stuff i think you have to have a pass word thing set up to make sure kids are not getting on to it
585906
Look for a feature called "Domain Name Parking" which is offered by several registrars for less than a full-blown registration that is linked to a live website.\n\nNote to that this practice, often called "Domain Name Squatting" has a bad reputation and is generally frowned upon.\n\nAlso, registering a domain name that involves a patent or registered trade name or other corporate entity and then trying to sell it to them might just get you involved in a lawsuit.\n\nNot that that's what you've got in mind. I'm just trying to cover most of the angles for all readers. ;)
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free domain names is not offered by any provider ....either u have to pay for buying a new domain name or have free url forwarding .\n\nFor example:\nU might have some  free subdomain  say  xx.yahoo.usrs.com \nthen u canhave   free url forwarding  from providers like .tk domains.\n\nwww.myname.tk pointing to u r xx.yahoo.usrs.com\n\nvisit  www.dot.tk\nthey provide free url forwarding ...\nso u can feel as if u have original .tk domain\n\nhttp://www.freedomain.co.nr/\nis similar to .tk ...\nbut ur webname will end in .co.nr
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Thank you for the information i will check it out but as far as there pay services I do not deal with any online company that has their information hidden when doing a DNS lookup of the domain name (Go Daddy). Myself I use Equifax Eport which cost me about $4 a lookup after I use my monthly quota of 25. I do collections/Repos for a Rent to Own company and need a reliable service.
1181266
nice suffix to your username thing\n--------------------------------------------------\nthere is probably NO LEGAL way of doing this.\npay that monthly fee. suggest movielink.
215562
There is a law of privacy, ISP will not provide any users detail. You can sue your ISP if they did so.
441538
Yes! You just have to find a company that is offering domain names with the endings as .net, .org, .com, .us, etc!