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.

  • sysop073@alien.topBEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I knew this information was public

    …I don’t understand the question then.

    • dontevendrivethatfar@alien.topOPBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      The question is “Why did it happen this time and never happened before with other domains I purchased?” and the answer is “Because it was a .US domain and you didn’t read the fine print.”

      • odsquad64@alien.topBEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I’ve had a .us domain for years and I’ve never gotten any calls like this. No privacy protection or anything.

        • Scared_Bell3366@alien.topBEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Same here. I do get a few emails about renewing my domain whenever it gets close to expiring. Maybe a text message, but no phone calls.

          You might be able to put a google voice number in there. You won’t have to worry about it being taken away for lack of use.