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Did I screw up by putting in my phone number in when registering for a domain for my self hosted stack? (alien.top)
submitted 1 year ago by dontevendrivethatfar@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum
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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.

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[–] sysop073@alien.top 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I knew this information was public

...I don't understand the question then.

[–] dontevendrivethatfar@alien.top 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.top 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.top 1 points 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.