On 12/20/2014 7:06 PM, steve harley wrote:
On 2014-12-20 11:48 , John wrote:
One thing though. If you register a domain name and later decide to give
it up because you don't want or need it, be prepared to spend the next
several years receiving emails from every company that has ever
bought/sold domain names contacting you to sell you the domain name you
just gave up.
when you register a domain, the contact info on the registration is a
public record can be used to spam you; in my experience it's worse
before you release a domain than after; i can distinguish the source of
spam because my registrations have unique email addresses
however, in the last several years most good registrars have offered
"domain privacy", which proxies your contact info so that your actual
email address (and physical address) aren't available, e.g.:
<https://domainwho.is/paper-ape.com>
when you release a domain, i understand the proxy goes away; however in
the time before domain privacy, my registration info was public, and
years later i still get spam to some of those addresses
I dunno. I just know that I had a domain I didn't want, so I let it go
and for about two years after everybody and his uncle was trying to sell
me that same domain.
It was kind of funny in a weird kind of way.
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