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.

  • 314z@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    For a meaningless domain with the least expensive renewal, get a numeric dot xyz. Be sure to verify the registrar has the correct renewal price, they should be around US $1 per year and pick a registrar that offers free whois privacy. Price applies to 6 7 8 9 digit numbers, they are showing current cost $1.22 at porkbun and 85 cents at namecheap

    They look totally spammy yet are great for this type of use https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dV37t13CSw