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3. Protect your data
Beyond failing to protect your personal data from the public records, some registrars actually sell your data to third parties such as marketing organizations. Some registrars even mine the WHOIS database and send out false renewal invoices, getting people to unknowingly transfer their domains. Make sure to find a registrar that promises never to sell or misuse customer data for marketing purposes.
Which ones ?Some registrars sell your info for extra money.
Everybody can see new registrations (from the zone files). What spammers do is compile list of newly-registered domains then scrape the whois and start contacting registrants. Doesn't mean the registrar is selling data away. Although some like GD have recently made the job more difficult for spammers by restricting the data available through port 43.I've noticed some patterns when I register a name at certain registrars where I'd get emails almost immediately afterward. Others I see almost none.