You must be doing something wrong. ;) After registering a new domain name, I get ~10 poorly worded emails trying to convince me a I need professional web development services. I also get ~15 phone calls over a few weeks from very thick accents and call-center noise in the background telling me that I need professional web development services or search engine optimization. There's usually 1 or 2 calls with the same characteristics telling me that they work for Google and have noticed a problem with my 'listing' for my new site and I need to have them correct it for a small fee because that's how Google makes money. The phone calls don't happen if I use private registration. ;) -A On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 8:25 AM Stephen Satchell <list@satchell.net> wrote:
On 04/25/2018 07:10 AM, keith@contoocook.net wrote:
Well, personally for me, I use secret registration because I was tired of all the spam I got. Spammers scrape whois data for email addresses. I not trying to hide my identity on the web, I just don't like spam. I'm not some dark evil force. Cheers, Keith
What I find interesting is that I didn't get all that much spam from my small collection of domains. Of course, the e-mail addresses associated with those domains is "admin@satchell.net" (and "abuse@satchell.net"). Indeed, abuse is completely ignored by spammers, while admin gets a couple of pieces of Far East spam a week. That's right, a week.
I bought privacy service now, as well as renewal protection. I've lost three domains, and don't want to lose any more.