After purchasing a domain name, you may find that you receive spam email and even spam phone calls. Unfortunately, this is a common issue that affects a lot of people. You can safely delete the spam emails - and you should never reply to them or click on any links.
We want to stress that any emails or phone calls do not come from Online Candidate, nor do not sell our client information.
So what’s going on?
After you register a domain, your information is collected in a database called WHOIS, which records who owns and is responsible for the domain name or IP address. International rules set by ICANN require that valid contact information is available for every domain name registered. The information includes your mailing address and other details.
WHOIS may sound intrusive, but it’s actually helpful in maintaining the integrity of legitimate registrations. It would be difficult to know whether or not a given domain is available without WHOIS, and it can help with things like an incident response after a cyber-attack. Law enforcement uses WHOIS in their cases, and it can help in investigations of cyber-crime.
But just because WHOIS is designed to help with the credibility of domain registration doesn’t mean it doesn’t attract less-than-desirable activity.
Since WHOIS information is a publicly accessible, spammers and questionable digital marketers access it to look for new domain registrations to target people for business offers, even though this is forbidden. Spammers still harvest and utilize the data, regardless of the penalties.
How to Stop the SPAM?
The only way to safeguard against it is to order ID Protection for your domain.
ID Protection cloaks your identity and provides proxy contact information in the Whois. This satisfies the ICANN WHOIS requirements without exposing your personal contact information.
