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.
Hmm, they have an article on WHOIS redaction but I’m not seeing how to get them to redact my info. I’ll ask support.
https://developers.cloudflare.com/registrar/account-options/whois-redaction/
You can look at porkbun or namecheap, they usually give out a good domain for about a dollar for a year. Good for self-hosting stuff.
I got some .xyz .site etc tlds for a dollad.