Every Day's a School Day...

[jshell]

Just bought a Domain name from 34SP using my normal e-mail address. You can guess how that went - my fking e-mail just exploded with shyte junk and spam mail offering a million different services.

fking tt!

[jshell]

I know, I know, stupid!

Now I'm getting the telemarketing calls!

fk!

[jshell]

eltawater said:

If you've got your phone number on there, expect a bazillion phone calls from various overseas "web design agencies" attempting to flog you a website too.

Thinking about changing my number already! Had to block loads so far...

[jshell]

Mr Happy said:

It'll be through the whois information for the domain. Most registrars have whois privacy as an optional extra for a few quid, well worth signing up for imo.

Whack the domain name into http://www.tcpiputils.com/ and see what it shows, it probably has your full home address (or whatever you used during signup) listed as well.

Its also worth to make sure that you don't have a catch-all email address listed, as this will ensure that [e-mail] is routed to whatever email address you specify, it just depends on what address the spam is being sent to, but going by your OP - I'd say it's down to the domain whois info.

Cheers, taking steps to rectify some of it now....!

[jshell]

FurtiveFreddy said:

Zoon said:

Why not buy a domain from 123reg, no such problems and cheaper.

I think it's too late for that now...

I've got a special phone number for things like domain registrations.

It's 01234 56789

Yeah, I'm not usually such a naive tt! So, changed e-mail, found the marketing mail and call turn-off buttons and changed my phone number...