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information A warning to all my fellow tadpoles about domain extensions and (no) privacy

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make sure your domain extension is eligible to be made private before comfortably filling out your info.. holy hell i was not prepared for the amount of spam that comes with leaving a domain public. i guess .us is in that category and i wasnt aware cause i now i have everyone's favorite logo makers and seo experts spamming my phone and email every hour. thankfully i just switched to android a month ago and its given me access to calls blacklist and apps like that.

also why is it not required for services to privatize your information from the public? now that ive experienced that^, it feels like blackmail lol
 
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Even if it's allowed, I speako no French? :ahhh:
It was an example, I'm sure it's possible to buy/rent a proxy service in Europe.
You could also use Epik's anonymize service, And it's free
It's in the Us, but it gives you a different phone number, so no spam on your phone
https://anonymize.com/whois-protection/
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My inboxes have 200K junk emails (I am a Real Estate agent) mostly from other agents trying to get me to show/sell their listings or vendors trying to sell me services. I get very little from domain spam relatively speaking.
 
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I own about 6K domains w/o whois
few of them are .us I can handle the 3 calls / week no idea what kind of domains you buy ...

I don't know what kind you own either...your volume of ownership has no bearing on anything. You are fortunate if you only get three unwanted interactions a week. On the number of names I own, I get over 150 a week...and that is with privacy in place.
 
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...is a domainer an ind, but i feel like it should be up to the owner of the domain to decide what information is available to the public...
ignore the bold in my original, somethin pooped

but when you want to sell your domain
you don't want privacy
you want the buyer to be able to contact you
...
i was planning on using the 60 day transfer lock to learn the ropes a bit, and then when i was ready to sell i would get all my info in order. oh well, its all good


Go buy a .US domain (privacy is not allowed), use your real address and email, and then watch what happens. I did it once, and never again. I got a million SPAM emails and later my security measures got flagged with a ton of potential intrusions.
this is exactly what happened lmao


The SPAM is nothing compared to the hacking attacks that will follow. And they will follow, with scammers calling various banks, online payment sites, crypto-banks, etc. all using your WHOIS data and looking to play the "Me Joe Smith, me lost password, me need to reset" social engineering game and hoping the CSRs play along.
oh shit.. i am not ready for this lol
this why i wanted those 60 days to prepare!! damn you .us
and i cant let go of the domain because its my baby
im trapped
 
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A solution to this would be to get a phone number just for domaining, same for the email.

Yeah, and maybe a second house... a second job, and a second wife, maybe another set of kids... yeah, I'll just duplicate my life so that scammers have a second source of contact info.
 
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I can handle the 3 calls / week.

If you own 6K domains, all with current and correct contact info: name, phone numbers, email, and home or business address, and only get 3 contact attempts per week then you definitely have some level of WHOIS privacy, whether that is GEO like the European GDRP or one that comes free with the registrar, as with Uniregistry and others.
 
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If you own 6K domains, all with current and correct contact info: name, phone numbers, email, and home or business address, and only get 3 contact attempts per week then you definitely have some level of WHOIS privacy, whether that is GEO like the European GDRP or one that comes free with the registrar, as with Uniregistry and others.

I don't use privacy either.

I use a dead-end skype number (voice mail only) as the phone and my regular gmail as the email. Gmail does a great job of filtering out just about every spam message. I wouldn't use your regular phone number if possible. It can get really annoying if the wrong place starts sending you text messages.
 
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My phone actually never stops ringing there was is a domainer that got an answering machine which asked all calls to be made to another number. This number was a premium per minute number and the guy was paying for the service and making profit from the spammers. I read about it here long time ago.
 
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