"Cloudflare redacts WHOIS information from your domain by default"!
My personal info is blasted all over the internet now since purchase of my domain. I've fielded no less that 27 calls from India call centers and 13 emails today alone. Glad Verizon started noticing and spam blocking a large chunk of calls and my email spam filtered most but not all the emails.
WTF!!!! Thanks for the privacy!
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You can lookup the information Cloudflare publishes in the whois here: https://rdap.cloudflare.com/. Most should be redacted. Some like .us don't but they clearly warn you, ex:
Not one thing is redacted though. Everything is exposed publicly. ðŸ˜
I already submitted a support ticket. If not fixed after the 60day time has passed i'm moving it to name cheap. I'm pulling my hair out with these calls!
What's the domain extension? Do you see the information in the rdap lookup there?
.us...Yup all of it!
I don't think support is going to be able to help then, although of course you're welcome to try. My understanding is no registrar at all can redact that information with .us domains, it's their policy
Porkbun (another registrar) gives this warning on us domains
lovely
opps that's the wrong one, the one they give is this one:
but yea, fun country domain things
I'm new to owning domains and was only for personal homelab use.
my fault for not seeing that but do not remember any info shown that I know of with that messaging sadly
Yea that really sucks. Cloudflare could maybe make that warning a bit bigger. If you stick to normal domains like com/net/org, they all support redaction/privacy
Good to know. thank you
Country code top-level domains (ccTLDs) like .us are allowed to do silly stuff like that. Generic top-level domains (gTLDs), like com/net/org/dev have way more restrictions/protections/things they have to follow. ccTLDs can generally do what they want.
sad part is that the .com option the mofos that own the domain wanted $3,500
I tried the .com first but saw it was labeled as "Premium" and thus carried that level pricing which was wild.
Yea Registries decide which domains are premium and pick whatever pricing they want. CF Registrar doesn't even support premium domains
There's other alternative TLDs like info/dev, or just appending something to the name and sticking to .com/net/org can work as well
If you need a cheap domain via Cf Registrar in the meantime
bid, date, download, loan, men, party, stream, trade, win are all the cheapest at 4.16/year. Kind of weird extensions though. All support redaction as well, as noted in the section below registrant information
.dev is pretty nice for developers though, supports redaction, requires https, more expensive though
I got to figure something out is all I know. I just need my personal info removed so i'm not getting spammed called so much
Yep, in the mean time it might be a good idea to change that phone number/email out. You could just grab a google voice number or some other random voip number, and make another email. Should be able to change that stuff within the dashboard under Manage Domain -> Contacts
I'm in that process right now