Originally Posted by rants

It's cause I don't want nosy people doing a whois and then finding all my domains... If someone hosted it on their own server, I could easily find out what some of their other domains where, I could search for their domains in google to see the pages they got spidered in there, look at their ads, look at the sponsors they promote.

If they do galleries I can even search on big sites and see what their submitting. I'm sure someone who is nosy and has a lot of time could do the same about me.

If they do SE work I can look at all their pages, check what domains are linked to what and try to find out how they got such high listing. And check for their keywords too. Imageshack provides privacy.

I've been nosy before and searched into other people's work when they hosted stuff on their own domain and posted their big stats. I went into google right away and looked at their sites/pages.