Domain registrars are of course eager to point out the advantages to buying their domain/Whois private registration option i.e.prevent Unsolicited Emails/Spam, Fraudulent Domain Transfers, Identity Theft, Unwanted Telephone Solicitation etc. Given that everything has a downside, aside from the additional cost involved, what are the other disadvantages?
disadvantage is that sometimes people wanting to buy a domain look up the whois info to contact you to ask about buying it. if you have private whois that wont happen and you could be missing out on some sales, potentially. if you have a company name or a DBA you could just use that name in the name field if you are concerned about having your real name out there. that is kind of a best of both worlds option, imo, just use your company info rather than a whois privacy