Is WHOIS Privacy Reducing Buyer Discovery? (1.Viewing)

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Privacy became a default choice for understandable reasons, but I still think the tradeoff gets discussed too narrowly. It solves one problem while sometimes creating another: direct discoverability. That matters most for owners who still get occasional inbound contact outside landers or marketplaces. I am not arguing that privacy is the wrong move. In many cases it still makes complete sense. I just think some portfolio holders underestimate how much casual buyer outreach used to happen because ownership was easier to identify. The harder question now is whether that lost discoverability is really being replaced elsewhere.

How are people here looking at that tradeoff now: privacy first, or discoverability first?
 

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