I’ve purchased a few domains in my life, but it was always through Google Domains in the past. This weekend I bought a new one through Cloudflare so that I could make a nice subdomain structure for all of my self-hosted apps. That went great - I’m using Traefik and Pihole for the local DNS.
But in the past two days, I’ve gotten 28 spam calls and a handful of text messages from companies who want to design my website, or logo, or something else. I only listened to the first few voicemails but they did mention the name of the domain I purchased.
This didn’t happen when I used Google Domains. Is there something I missed? I knew this information was public, but I feel like I must have screwed up somehow and it put me on a lot of spam lists.
As someone that gets probably 50+ spam calls per week…. Bests advice is to use the RoboKiller app, honestly it works 99.999% of the time. Outside of that, change your phone number or simply do your best to ignore the spam as it “should” settle down after awhile as your lead becomes more stale however it will be sold and resold 100x times so it will probably never “stop” either.