I use my domain only for email forwarding. My current registrar, GoDaddy, has network-level spam filtering which cannot be turned off, and which sometimes swallows legitimate emails. As I would much prefer to filter for spam at my end rather than lose messages completely, I am looking for a new domain name registrar.

I’m looking for someone reliable but inexpensive, with free email forwarding but with no mandatory spam filtering, and with the ability to hide my WHOIS details.

Namecheap.com seems to be generally well-regarded on these forums, but they’re not responding to the emails I’ve sent them to ask whether they have mandatory spam filtering. Their lack of response is itself a worry. LowPriceDomains.com seems to have what I need (including no mandatory spam filtering), but I can’t find any feedback about their service levels on these forums.

So:
1. Does anybody know if Namecheap.com has no mandatory spam filtering?
2. Does anybody have any experience using LowPriceDomains.com?
3. Or are there other registrars which would meet my requirements?

Many thanks for any replies. I’ve just recently discovered these forums, and found them to be very valuable.

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Christopher J Smallwood

zoneedit does email forwarding, you might try that. if satisfactory, you could keep the domain at godaddy.

AIT Domains and ENOM are your best for control.

I am not sure about AIT, but I have a confirmed information that eNom DOES spamfiltering for it's mailforwarding services.

I am not sure about AIT, but I have a confirmed information that eNom DOES spamfiltering for it's mailforwarding services.

I am not sure of that, I get a great deal of spam with enom mail forwarding.

I am not sure of that, I get a great deal of spam with enom mail forwarding.

And I am *not* getting quite alot of legitimate mail... :(

Actually, above was an issue I brought to NameCheap's (because the domain is registered with them) attention and they quoted eNom's reply to them about spamfiltering.

you can register a domain and do whois protection at the registrar and then do email forwarding at other services such as zoneedit etc..

Regarding registration - Bashar made a great suggestion. It is becoming more and more popular to make your whois information private, and this can usually be done for a $10 per year fee, depending on your registrar. I know Enom does it, as I use them for my services.

Regarding Spam, you are right that filtering is offered through Enom, but the sensitivity can be set. Also, clients can easily turn off the filter and setup spam custom filters within cpanel.

zoneedit does email forwarding, you might try that. if satisfactory, you could keep the domain at godaddy.But they appear to have filtering. From FAQ (http://www.zoneedit.com/doc/faq.html#faq17):
Do you filter out SPAM?

Yes! ZoneEdit's mail forwarding service filters out SPAM.

Thank you very much to everyone for your replies so far.

To summarise so far:
1. ZoneEdit appears to have mandatory spam filtering, so it’s of no use to me.
2. I emailed Enom, and Jim replied “Yes, we also have mandatory filtering. As for [Enom’s] resellers, if they are not using our servers, we would have no way of knowing how their system works.”
3. I finally got a response to my email to Namecheap, but it referred only to POP3 email services, not email forwarding, so I’ve emailed them again.
4. To VertuHost: Your reply about being able to turn off spam filtering within Enom contradicts Enom’s own reply. Perhaps you were referring to POP3 email, whereas my requirement is for simple email forwarding.
5. So at this point, LowPriceDomains provides the only forwarding service I know of for which they say they don’t have mandatory spam filtering. But that statement was just a response from their “live chat” support, so maybe I should double-check with them.
6. I still have no feedback on the quality of LowPriceDomains’ service, so if there are other better-known registrars who definitely don’t have mandatory spam filtering on email forwarding, then I’d like to hear about them.

I've been using long ago Enom's email forwarding and I haven't found problems regarding spam filters, I mean, don't thing "real" emails were lost -although it could have happened :-(

Regards,

I've been using long ago Enom's email forwarding and I haven't found problems regarding spam filters, I mean, don't thing "real" emails were lost -although it could have happened :-(

The thing is that you almost never know if/when legitimate email was filtered...

Funny I get a lot of spam thru my email forwarding at GoDaddy. AFAICR, you can set the level of filtering at GoDaddy. I can't remember if you can turn it off entirely.