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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 1 year 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 1 year ago (1 children)

I got a number from numberbarn.com just for domain reg, because otherwise you get flooded with calls the moment you reg a domain.

I'll pay the $6/month to not deal with it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

google voice is free

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

you don't own the number, and when will it be just another killed or shuttered google service?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Then.. spammers who get your google voice number from your domain registration won’t be able to call you? Oh no!! /s.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I see what you did there.