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Yesterday I registered a new .com domain. Today I woke up to more than 40 emails from web and app design companies offering their services.

I receive these emails daily, also receive phone calls from these people offering their services.

These are professional spammers who scrape Whois info daily for new domain registrations. It’s really getting quite bad!
 
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In my experience this doesn't happen with Godaddy, cause they keep your details hidden from the bog standard WHOIS. It seems that you have to go to whois.godaddy.com to get the contact details. I never have/had any issues with them with regards to spam when registering public domains.

I did however register a domain for a JOKE with names.co.uk just because it was cheap. I experienced the exact same thing... people calling me from India. Hundreds of them. It took months for it to stop happening - emails and phone calls. These people would call me up and ask if I want their services to develop a domain that is clearly a pile of crap and a joke.

I just wondered how successful these people are at getting customers, cause there's no way that I'm going to trust some randomer to develop a site for me.
 
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I never get emails like this when I register new domains. Are you not using privacy protection?
 
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Already had over 50 spam emails just from this morning alone so far.
 
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@JudgeMind at which registrar you bought this name?

As I see this happened usually when we buy domains at cheap prices in Promos.

Usually you don't get these kind of spam bombarding when you registered domains for regular prices like GoDaddy.

My personal opinion - it is not possible for these all spamsters to check thousands of daily registered names whois data on daily basis, especially after free/cheap whois privacy as well GDRP.

I have strong doubt that these cheap registrars sell our data to these spamsters and adjust their loss in promos.
 
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Professional Spam Filter is the business which comes with most shared hosting on cpanel is the business. I review it once a month for any false positives, but effectively my inbox is by and large spam free.

If phone calls are really that bad then get a premium rate number for whois and start making money from them.

I don't pick up calls from India.
 
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I received hundreds of them, thanks for god lately slightly less. Just wondered the email response rate was so low even before GDPR , it would be worthy to them wasting their time acquiring new clients...
Not sure if putting up whois privacy will stop them, once they have an email list scraped before I put privacy option.
 
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You are so ridicolous, guys.
You also spam trying to sell your domains.
So why you react this way when somebody spam YOU?
 
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I thought the GDPR would eradicate all this spamming...sadly it hasn’t. :arghh:
 
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Yesterday I registered a new .com domain. Today I woke up to more than 40 emails from web and app design companies offering their services.

I receive these emails daily, also receive phone calls from these people offering their services.

These are professional spammers who scrape Whois info daily for new domain registrations. It’s really getting quite bad!

90% of the spam comes out of the same Country too. The spammers from that part of world are so out of hand, that I no longer do business with anything that originates in their Country. If you are from that region you should really urge your Country/Government to do something about it.. I won't buy domains from you or use any services you provide. No offense to anyone from that region, I have nothing against you. I'm just fed up with the harassment from that Country, it was so bad my phone was ringing non-stop for a month, I had to shut it off.

I also use a secondary email address and phone number now for domain registration. I no longer answer phone calls from numbers I don't recognize or have saved in my phone. I did speak with a US Politician about this topic and in general the spam phone calls that are happening. I suggested they/he cut off all financial aid to the Countries the phone calls are originating from.
 
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Which is why I have never done outbound. I prefer the sit and wait approach

there is a lot difference between doing outbound and the crap that we receive..
 
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Just blocked some overseas calls with my provider as I get more than the average thinking i will provide them with marketing work to whomever harrasses me the most. umm not. I was getting a call ever hour and spammed the crap out of.
 
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I have to give BT credit they have pretty much eliminated spam phone calls here in the UK, used to get tons now don't remember the last time I got one, their nuisance call blocking is fantastic.

Spam emails on the other hand just don't stop lol, still getting tons of them. What's funny is I think GDPR is helping stop new spammers but the old ones just keep on spamming me with domain registration/web design/seo etc. as they know my email from before. I think if I got a new email address I wouldn't be surprised if I got next to none, only one way to find out!
 
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I don't get emails much anymore but I get about 10 calls a day. Half of them won't say a word and hang up at 12 seconds on, and the other half start with a very distinct beep in the beginning (like they just transferred over to the next victim). I mess with these people, QUITE hard because half of them are people I've told countless times before to EFF OFF.
 
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Almost every day, a phone call announcing that you're being sued by the IRS.
LOL
 
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I so hate this.... I know who they are because they can't pronounce my name.
My name is Jaime.
They ask for YAMMMY O_o
I guess they must know I'm delicious....:sneaky:
 
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One more thing to do add to this, these spammers are all over it appears.
I have been tracking spam bots to new regs in google analytics and they seem to come mostly from China, and some from Brazil, USA, Canada, Phillipines are some of the worst offenders it appears (China is by far the worst). What is interesting is that India seems to be non existent in terms of bot traffic for new regs, whereas we all know they are some of the worst offenders with email and phone spam.

Just some thoughts, haven't pieced it all together yet!
 
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I dont know why but it is worst if the domain is at godaddy.. Even if your MAIN email is not in the whois.. Godaddy leaks it somewhere somehow...
 
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Good mail filters can stop most of the trash spam.
 
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100% of the ones I get are from people named "Brian" or "Steve" or "Cindy", in India. :-P
Wow, I just got a call from Brian today! Do you think its the same one? lol
 
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GSuite apps using gmail

Zero in inbox, hundreds in spam

I cannot even remember having a legitimate email go into spam

Gmail reserves the better filters for the google apps suite, I would highly recommend that.

I made a tutorial of how to run multiple gmail accounts on one paid license.

https://www.namepros.com/threads/ru...ts-on-one-license-legal.1006052/#post-6498768

I agree. GSuite is a very recommendable solution. They identify most of the spam immediately. Your best results will only come when you "train" GSuite about any spam they miss. And you have millions of other users reporting this spam also. It's not just your efforts which is dealing with this spam. You have millions of friends all contributing. It's a really great, collaborative effort. It's why GSuite have the absolutely best email filters in the market. IMHO.
 
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and i received spam from domains registered at netsol. inside job? those type of spammers that registers in your form wherever you don't have google recaptcha installed.
I get a email from netsol saying tired of getting emailed by spammers lol
 
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