Spam, or unwanted or junk email, is nothing new. In fact, if you don't get spam, then I'd certainly like to know how you've managed to avoid it, :) Anyway, I discovered a way to drastically cut down on the amount of spam that I get through my website, and those that have a website or know someone with one, might want to pass this along to them.
When I registered my site several years ago, I provided my contact information, including email address, to Go Daddy. My information, along with information for any domain name, is stored on a database run by Whois.net, or something like that. Anyway, to make a long story short, today I found out that spammers were still spamming me through the email address that I registered with. I should mention for clarification, that I use forwarding addresses through my site, whenever I sign up for services. One more way I try to cut down spam and try to hide my real address. Anyway, I had taken the registration forwarding address down from my site some time ago, but I have continued to get spam from it. It wasn't until I was taking care of some other business on Go Daddy earlier, that I realized where the spam has been coming from with this forwarding address.
If you have registered your domain through Go Daddy, then it would be to your advantage to sign up for their privacy protection service. I don't remember the exact name, but the sales representative recognized what I meant when I said this to him. The service costs only $8.95 a year, and you can have it along side your domain name, so that when you renew the domain name, the privacy service is renewed as well, for the number of years that you renew the domain name for. If that makes sense. Anyway, this privacy protection service will hide your postal address, phone number, and email address on the Who Is database of domain names. For those that don't know, the Who Is database allows people to look up any available domain names and see who owns them. So, someone could lookup your domain name, see that you own it, and then have your address, phone, and email address to contact you with. This service from Go Daddy is worth its weight in gold, since as I discovered, when the email address is hidden, spammers can't get to you! If you are not with Go Daddy, then this might be a good reason to switch. Or, you might look into any similar program with whatever site you registered your domain name with.
Read more about the service at Go Daddy.
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Hello, when i submit email addressess online, I use a email address that i have made from hotmail, or yahoo, for all my online stuff, that way i get all the junk mail sent to one address and not the main one i use for bisness.
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