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I have noticed a huge spike in marketers and scam calls + emails in the past month since I have been very active buying domains.

It's gotten to a point where as I am answering one call, someone else is on hold calling me.

My inbox looks like the inside of a dumpster.

I know that the registrars are selling my information to marketers.

How do you deal with this?? Do you use fake numbers?
 
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How do you deal with this?? Do you use fake numbers?

Voodoo.

Not the parking site, the old school practice of making a doll and sticking pins in it. Sure, it is time consuming and doll making materials are hard to find during lockdown...also, finding the necessary chicken blood can be a challenge as well (unless fowl are available running around the house...in worst case, go to grocery store and get some uncooked drumsticks and squeeze).

Seriously, I feel your pain but just make sure you have privacy set on your names. Some registrars make you pay extra, some it is totally free...also remember that the spammers might be using your 'masked' email and just shooting in the dark to get to you. Just have a good email filter and delete them as they come in...don't ever open one. Oh yea, make sure your name resolves to your own landing page or use one of the aftermarkets (NEVER pay more than 15% commission no matter who you use).
 
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How do i deal with it? I use privacy and i get zero.

If a genuine buyer is interested in your domain, they can still contact you via landing page.

I personally cannot understand why people 'don't' use privacy this day and age.
 
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you're not alone, i block at least 6 calls a day, personally. :)
 
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I use the '+' operator in my email address (supported by most email providers) and create filter rules, for example:

[email protected] (or any other string instead of 'whois')

That way you'll know who abused that version of your email address, and you can either create a new one or filter the emails to a separate folder.
 
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I use the '+' operator in my email address (supported by most email providers) and create filter rules, for example:

[email protected] (or any other string instead of 'whois')

That way you'll know who abused that version of your email address, and you can either create a new one or filter the emails to a separate folder.

Never heard of this method...Thanks a lot! But I know that this is not coming from one registrar or domain name but multiple, although NameBright does seems to be heading the list. When I ask them which domain they are calling me about it is (mostly) a domain registered with them
 
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Never heard of this method...Thanks a lot! But I know that this is not coming from one registrar or domain name but multiple, although NameBright does seems to be heading the list. When I ask them which domain they are calling me about it is (mostly) a domain registered with them

Namebright it is.
I registered 1 domain with them and forgot to turn on whois privacy and it didn't turn on by itself. I have received over 25 calls within 48 hours of registering. And I know its NB because I accidently provided my personal number in this instance and thats the only place it's being used for whois.
 
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I don't mind if they call me. They have family to feed and a job to do.
I just politely put the call on hold with nice music after asking them "Would you mind to hold?"

I am sure it's raining gold coins on them and their family when they're on hold especially with that transcendental music.
 
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I have had privacy 'on' for the last six months, but I've noticed a big upturn in domain services spam emails in the new year - mostly from India.

There have been some big data breaches recently with hundreds of millions of emails and personal info leaked and on-sold. Many of these lists are marketing/spam lists. I wouldn't be surprised if this info is also matched to old WHOIS records ie. your domains, email and phone number.


Have you looked at this site?

haveibeenpwned .com

It explains some of the biggest breaches.

You can also check if domains, email or passwords have been exposed.

I don't enter my full passwords... just the first few characters to see if there are any potential matches.
 
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I have a bunch of different numbers & emails so only those get spammed.
 
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In case you have the time and will to take such a call, you can just friendly flip the topic from the first second on and offer them your domain name(s) for sale.
 
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Thank you friends for your input.

Here's an update:

As I have been backordering a lot, I didn't realise that both NameBright and NS dont automatically hide your who is for domains that you just captured. To add to this, NetworkSolutions charges you to have hide your whois information!

I have worked around the latter based on your recommendations, and although my inbox is still being spammed daily, the phone calls have finally ceased
 
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I get these emails. About 10-20 a day. They are usually trying to sell me 1) an impossible plural or single, 2) two word domains with reverse words, 3) hyphenated domains which I own the unhyphenated, and I saved the best for last 4) My own domains I'm dropping which haven't dropped yet. I wonder when they will get it. They go straight in the bin.

I'm disappointed I don't get to talk to anybody. I guess that's because they don't want to call internationally :)
 
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I don't mind if they call me. They have family to feed and a job to do.
I just politely put the call on hold with nice music after asking them "Would you mind to hold?"
Best reply ever
 
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