Email in Whois?

Zagor

Zagor

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I was always reluctant to put my email in Whois info because I think it generates a lot of spam.

Somone told me that I should create completely new email and put it in Whois info and not make this public elsewhere. That way I could see exactly how much spam can be received due to email display on Whois. But I just didn't have the time to practise this.

I would like to hear some suggestions?
 
I would prefer to make my domain name private because who has time to experiment how much spam the new email can receive? :rolleyes2
 
I just don't have that level of spam here, but I like the idea. Of all the emails I received this morning, only one spam got through.
 
Never faced any Spam, on our whois email.

Spam come when we add your email on forum but we set our servers strict on spam, so all of them goes in junk box.
 
I have used private and public, I have never got any spam from listing it either way.

But, I guess it depends on how big your site is, and what your doing with it.
 
Depends on your needs. If you have a legitimate business why on earth would you set Whois info to be private. But as an individual maybe privacy isn't such a bad idea. Than again, isn't that what sites are built for, to promote something, so why the privacy?
 
I have heard this just the same but for me I would rather have to deal with the IG spam filter I use (personal mail for my site mind you, not business related) than try to have just one dedicated email. There is just no way I can do that, I have too many things routed too many ways. :(
 
Amdinistrator said:
I was always reluctant to put my email in Whois info because I think it generates a lot of spam.

Somone told me that I should create completely new email and put it in Whois info and not make this public elsewhere. That way I could see exactly how much spam can be received due to email display on Whois. But I just didn't have the time to practise this.

I would like to hear some suggestions?
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I suggest thatyou do this for 1 reason alone:
To understand how many people are trying to contact you for your Domain Name.

If you do not want to sell your Domain Name, just get WhoIs protection. Because if you use that new Email ID, at any time you wish to Transfer your Domain Name, you will receive an email on that ID. So, that email ID will be very important in context to your Domain Name.
 
I'm building a legitimate business with my web site so I will have to put an email address there anyway, but thank you for the tip.
 
Private whois would stop all spam, but can make you look like your trying to hide something. So it has it's pros and cons.
 
romes said:
Private whois would stop all spam, but can make you look like your trying to hide something. So it has it's pros and cons.
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I think the cons outweigh the pros here. How much spam do you really get from an email in WHOIS? I get much more blog comment spam now than I get email spam - of course, I have a pretty email filter too. LOL
 
Haven't added a spam filter to my blog yet - still deleting them one by one. What filter are you using?
 
Spam for anything on the internet is an ongoing pain, short of hiding emails and details in images or simply not showing data there is no magical cure... as far as whois is concerned for a business use a real email but impose heavy spam rules (filters) and potentially skim occasionally the junk box, anyone who intends to contact you officially i would imagine would navigate to your site and use another method (ticket/live etc)

As far as wordpress goes Steve, you should have an update or check your enabled modules - there is a default spam protection that you enable and link in to your account ID that is provided by wordpress (full instructions on the mod), should be installed but disabled by default - Saved me about 20 emails a day worth of wordpress comment spam :D have yet to get a single spam mail. :thumbup:
 
It was free...I didn't pay 50$..a friend installed it for me..Wordpress has it on the dashboard for auto install.
 
Honestly, I don't see anything wrong with using WHOIS Privacy, even if you're a business. As long as you clearly display all your contact info on your website, though.

I mean, lets face it... The average customer is not going to do a WHOIS check on your domain. But, every spammer, indentity thief and fraudster will. So, you might as well make them go to your site to get the info. ;)
 
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