dontevendrivethatfar

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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? in c/main@selfhosted.forum
[–] dontevendrivethatfar@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

Did I screw up by putting in my phone number in when registering for a domain for my self hosted stack? in c/main@selfhosted.forum
[–] dontevendrivethatfar@alien.top 2 points 1 year ago (2 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."

Did I screw up by putting in my phone number in when registering for a domain for my self hosted stack? in c/main@selfhosted.forum
[–] dontevendrivethatfar@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (8 children)

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/

Did I screw up by putting in my phone number in when registering for a domain for my self hosted stack? in c/main@selfhosted.forum
[–] dontevendrivethatfar@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I remember doing this in Google Domains but don't recall seeing the option in Cloudflare

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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)
 

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.