One of my specialties is recovering "lost" domains for our clients. This can be as simple as the client having no idea as to where it is registered or what the user name and password is to as complex as hijacking by an ex-webmaster or employee and sold to a domain aggregator. Domain privacy registrations really make this process difficult and costly and sometimes the courts have to become needlessly involved just to find out the domain IS actually still registered to the client.

I have over 100 domains registered using my email and physical addresses and other than the occasional fishing expedition by Domain Registry of America (and their reincarnations) I get no more junk mail than anybody else in the office. I have yet to meet someone who actually had a real need for this service and I don't do business with companies that use it because they appear to be trying to hide something.