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DNS Privacy protection

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I want to secure all that I can and I see on some whoseis queries that some company have put in place privacy information in their dns information adress email and so on.
Can you clarify what is it, is it a good thing to do, is there any negative things doing it?

I got this from wiki:
Implications

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) broadly requires the mailing address, phone number, and e-mail address of those owning or administrating a domain name to be made publicly available through the "WHOIS" directories. However, that policy may enable spammers, direct marketers, identity thieves, or other attackers to use the directory to acquire personal information about those people. Although ICANN has been working to change WHOIS to enable greater privacy, there is a lack of consensus among major stakeholders as to what type of change should be made.[13] However, with the offer of private registration from many registrars, some of the risk has been mitigated, enabling those spammers, direct marketers, identity thieves, and other cyber-criminals to hide behind anonymous domain registrations to make it difficult or impossible for victims to identify those responsible.[citation needed]
Litigation

With "private registration", the service can be the legal owner of the domain. This has occasionally resulted in legal problems. Ownership of a domain name is given by the organization name of the owner contact in the domain's WHOIS record. There are typically four contact positions in a domain's WHOIS record: owner, administrator, billing, and technical. Some registrars will not shield the owner organization name in order to protect the ownership of the domain name.

Ownership of domains held by a privacy service was also an issue in the RegisterFly case, in which a registrar effectively ceased operations and then went bankrupt. Customers encountered serious difficulties in regaining control of the domains involved.[citation needed][14] ICANN has since remedied that situation by requiring all accredited registrars to maintain their customers' contact data in escrow. In the event a registrar loses its accreditation, gTLD domains along with the escrowed contact data will be transferred to another accredited registrar.[citation needed]

There have been several lawsuits against NameCheap, Inc. for its role as owner/registrant.[15] and also in Silverstein v. Alivemax, et al. Los Angeles Superior Court Case Number BC480994 although this case was dismissed in May of 2014. [16] Silverstein is well known for his anti-spam and email privacy campaigning, most notably in the case of William Siverstein v Keynetics, Inc., No. 17-15176 (9th Cir. 2018) - decided in March 2018. [17] "
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1) I want to secure all that I can and I see on some whoseis queries that some company have put in place privacy information in their dns information adress email and so on.

Define what you mean by secure.

If all the info in whois is readily available on your Website, there's no point in having any whois privacy, related to public information.

2) Can you clarify what is it, is it a good thing to do, is there any negative things doing it?

Just an extra per/year domain charge.

If you're running a real company, adhering to things like FTC + other entity requirements for disclosure, the only benefit domain privacy provides is to your Domain Registrar, as they charge extra for "so called" privacy.
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The only actual issue is spam related. Your business postal address is most likely publicly avaliable through other means. Do not overthink this. Use a dedicated mail address with adaquate spam protections. possibly your postmaster or zbuse. Actually a bogus one does little to no harm. It is common courtesy to make sure humans know the address is bogus, though.