I’ve purchased a few domains in my life, but it was always through Google Domains in the past. This weekend I bought a new one through Cloudflare so that I could make a nice subdomain structure for all of my self-hosted apps. That went great - I’m using Traefik and Pihole for the local DNS.
But in the past two days, I’ve gotten 28 spam calls and a handful of text messages from companies who want to design my website, or logo, or something else. I only listened to the first few voicemails but they did mention the name of the domain I purchased.
This didn’t happen when I used Google Domains. Is there something I missed? I knew this information was public, but I feel like I must have screwed up somehow and it put me on a lot of spam lists.
Yes. I accidentally signed up for a .us domain without knowing they can’t use whois protection and have been getting spam calls ever since. It was like 5 years ago.
I really wish that when I registered my .us domain Google had warned me that I’d probs be getting tons of spam.
I contacted Cloudflare’s support and had them remove the registration. I picked up a different domain and replaced it pretty easily. I’m sure I’m already on a lot of lists but I’m hoping that the WHOIS information will clear and it will slow down the spam.
Oh yeah, got rid of the damn thing within 30 minutes of registering but it was too late. I assume bots grab that info as soon as it’s posted.