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.

  • AmokinKSBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I got a number from numberbarn.com just for domain reg, because otherwise you get flooded with calls the moment you reg a domain.

    I’ll pay the $6/month to not deal with it.

      • AmokinKSBEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        you don’t own the number, and when will it be just another killed or shuttered google service?

        • jschwalbeBEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Then… spammers who get your google voice number from your domain registration won’t be able to call you? Oh no!! /s.