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Did I screw up by putting in my phone number in when registering for a domain for my self hosted stack? (alien.top)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That dollar is only an introductory price. xyz renews at like $12ish

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's why I said they are good for self-hosting. Mostly for you and your family, you can change the tld every year without much effort.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

That seems pretty unnecessary to save one dollar a month

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Closer to $.92/mo saved.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Doesn't take more than 2 minutes to configure. You can definitely look at the tld list or something similar to find domains with cheap renewals but be careful about some of the registrars listed there.