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.
Just get a .top domain from Porkbun. It is a gTLD and less than $5 per year.
That dollar is only an introductory price. xyz renews at like $12ish
That’s why I said they are good for self-hosting. Mostly for you and your family, you can change the tld every year without much effort.
That seems pretty unnecessary to save one dollar a month
Closer to $.92/mo saved.
Doesn’t take more than 2 minutes to configure. You can definitely look at the tld list or something similar to find domains with cheap renewals but be careful about some of the registrars listed there.
By domain its actually the people who control the domain .us domain information not cloudflare. Cloudflare has been my goto for a number of years they do a good job masking the information and once you set those settings they do not change them (I am looking at you GoDaddy). I will second Porkbuna nd Namecheap as good options.