Hi,
I transferred a domain to Cloudflare Registrar a couple of months ago. Now I’m getting spam for the domain. The scam isn’t anything new and I’m used to these mails, but this one is a little different.
The troubling part is that this one includes my personal information (name/address). I have always kept my whois information private so scammers should not have access to it. I have several other domains (not on Cloudflare), none of them have this problem.
What’s going on?
I have never seen or heard anything like this personally or on this Community. Could it be that the old registrar, while transferring made your info public and it was scraped?
I have never seen or heard anything like this
That’s the troubling part for me as well. But then registrars messing info during transfer would be rare too. If it helps, I transferred in September, Namecheap to Cloudflare. I don’t think spammers would wait two months… of course, just spitballing here.
You wouldn’t guess the amount of trouble they cause… I have seen everything.
Depends if the name was scraped by them or added to some list that then got into the spammers’ hands.
Haha… I guess that’s reasonable. And I hope that’s the real cause as well. Spammers getting info by any other means would make things very problematic.
I get you, unfortunately there isn’t much we can understand from that… Maybe there was a leak on some other service, completely unrelated to DNS/hosting, etc.
Yup… thanks for your time and answers! I suppose I should mark this thread solved now.