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.
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.