Is Private Registration necessary?

The registrar or the party who filed the UDRP? If it's the registrar, it's part of
the agreement in case you didn't read it.

AFAIK, no registrar is going to be a moron to lose their registrar accreditation
for not following their agreements dealing with this issue.

 

If you are a site with a forum or blog then I really suggest using private registration. I speak from experience. I get harassing calls from trolls at all hours of the day and night.

 

Resistor domain on Netfirms dot com
they are giving free privacy and also give 25MB web space & Email Address
@ very cheap prices, 6$ USD, my all 7 domains are registered with NetFirms, service is good.....

 

If you start out without privacy, can you later add it on?

 

yes you can, i think with most registrars the option is there.

 

1. privacy protection is free
2. it helps SPAM - that's is the only major use of this.

 

Sure, you can add privacy later, but when you do this a lot of times the original information that you use when you register the domain is already saved on the whois database.

There's a historical whois records so you can check all the times a domain has change the whois information.

So if you plan to protect the ownership of a domain you better register the domain with privacy registration ..

My 2 cents..