I wanted to make some of my domains that I have registered with GoDaddy private, but I was put off by their price for the whois cover. It is $9.99 per domain. No any discount on bulk orders. With NameCheap you can buy a whois cover from $2.88. I think I will rather transfer all these my domains to NameCheap and it will be even cheaper.
When purchasing domains have a look how much more for extras or renewals. As people do purchase domains cheaper but have to pay for privacy or other extras so really the domain was not cheap.
I just had an issue with this as well the other day. I e-mailed support because I remember in the past when I bought domains I was able to get the whois block for free but then in a recent purchase I wasn't able to. They said it was because the promo they have going on now is that you have to buy at least 5 at once to be able to get the whois block. With godaddy is it possible to edit the whois info and make everything blank instead of paying the $9.99 to block it? I'm not sure which setting I would have to change to do this.