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I've been running the sticker, "Hi, I build software. Come talk to me!" at a high end coffee shop in my town (Nashville) for 2 weeks and it's generated 3 good conversations. I would say I'm very satisfied with how it's gone so far.
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The timing of this is interesting to me because I recently registered a new domain, opted to leave my contact info public, and have since received an unending barrage of spam emails that I have to attribute to the WHOIS record due to the timing. I agree about publicly displaying contact info, but would like to know some good suggestions for filtering out the crap that comes with it.
I have my contact info publicly available on all of my domains, and I don't see any specific signs that any of the spam I get is directly attributable to that. But I did get an email from a guy in Canada a couple of weeks ago, asking about buying one of my domains, which I sold to him. Personally I think the benefits of having valid whois info outweigh the negatives, but that's just me...
Agree with that. As both a domain owner, registrar as well as someone who buys domains. There are definitely cases where privacy is warranted but not for the majority of people.
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Yeah. For a long time I had a crude X in black duct tape on my laptop, and no other stickers. Almost everybody asks what it means because... it looks like it means something. It doesn't mean anything; I bought this laptop & went directly to a conference, and just wanted it to look slightly distinctive, and the duct tape was all I had. It does cover the Apple logo so it looks like I hate Apple or something (I do hate…
Yeah. For a long time I had a crude X in black duct tape on my laptop, and no other stickers. Almost everybody asks what it means because... it looks like it means something. If I saw that, I would probably have assumed you were just a huge X-Files fan or something. Actually, thinking about it now, I think the next laptop I buy, I'm going to put an X like that on there, along with a small sticker that just says "I Wa…
To the OP: Good idea but you need some contact info on your site and please remove the "whois privacy" from your whois record for the domain. In all but a limited amount of cases you don't need that. Use a separate gmail account that forwards to your real email to filter if you are worried about spam. Put another address into the whois and google voice number if you are worried about phone calls. To begin you won't g…
If you run an ICANN registrar, you should be aware that ICANN requires whois information to be accurate. Providing incorrect data is grounds for cancellation of your domain name. I guess long as you can still be reached from the address it would be fine though?
Personally, I use whois privacy because I don't want my physical address (and identity) to be publicly available. I had one domain that didn't have privacy years ago, and I kept getting snail-mail spam every year asking me to "renew" it, from some registrar I'd never heard of.
To the OP: Good idea but you need some contact info on your site and please remove the "whois privacy" from your whois record for the domain. In all but a limited amount of cases you don't need that. Use a separate gmail account that forwards to your real email to filter if you are worried about spam. Put another address into the whois and google voice number if you are worried about phone calls. To begin you won't g…
The timing of this is interesting to me because I recently registered a new domain, opted to leave my contact info public, and have since received an unending barrage of spam emails that I have to attribute to the WHOIS record due to the timing. I agree about publicly displaying contact info, but would like to know some good suggestions for filtering out the crap that comes with it.
Gmail account which is setup to forward to your regular email account. Or simply change to a new gmail if you get to much spam. I register domains all the time and have a single email account that represents a large quantity of domains. I don't find the spam to be a big problem at all.
To the OP: Good idea but you need some contact info on your site and please remove the "whois privacy" from your whois record for the domain. In all but a limited amount of cases you don't need that. Use a separate gmail account that forwards to your real email to filter if you are worried about spam. Put another address into the whois and google voice number if you are worried about phone calls. To begin you won't g…
> Put another address into the whois If you run an ICANN registrar, you should be aware that ICANN requires whois information to be accurate. Providing incorrect data is grounds for cancellation of your domain name. I guess long as you can still be reached from the address it would be fine though? Personally, I use whois privacy because I don't want my physical address (and identity) to be publicly available. I had o…
Not speaking for other registrars of course but what's the chance that we will cancel your domain because there is "inaccurate" info?
In order to do that someone would have to file a complaint with ICANN then ICANN contacts us and we send you an email telling you to fix the info. And we would bend over backwards before cancelling the domain because who wants to deal with how pissed you'd be if we did that? What do we have to gain vs. what do we have to lose.
Do a test. Register a name with, say namecheap or godaddy. Purposely put in bad info (not bogus looking but just wrong). The file an complaint with ICANN. See what happens. (And that's after someone files a complaint how or why would someone care to do that?)
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Whois privacy email addresses will forward incoming mails to you as well. A buying offer can be a smart way to probe the owner behind that privacy wall, who I guess most of the time is just a normal guy/gal...
Interesting.. I didn't realize that, as I've never bothered to pay the extra fee for the "private" registration. But I do use a less-important GMail account for the email contact, so at least my main email doesn't get swamped. But the phone number on there is actually my personal cellphone, which could be annoying if a lot of people started calling, but so far that doesn't seem to happen.
Use google voice number that forwards to your cellphone. Or better use a google voice number that doesn't go anywhere.
I'd be very curious about the viability of clients who approach you in a coffee shop. Seems like you'd get an awful lot of, "So hey, I have this idea that's like Facebook and Youtube combined and I think it could be the next big thing". That's not to say you won't ever find a good client in a coffee shop, but I suspect it has a lower viability rate than a Craigslist ad, and at least on Craigslist I don't have to spen…
But it's not always about professional connections IMHO. This sticker has the potential to signal 'geek/programmer', and I would very much welcome a fellow hacker coming up to me and having a chat because of it. I agree that it seems like a so-so way of getting quality clients. @spqr Your comment is informative, but your account has been hellbanned for quite a while it seems. Only users with showdead can read your re…
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Yeah. For a long time I had a crude X in black duct tape on my laptop, and no other stickers. Almost everybody asks what it means because... it looks like it means something. If I saw that, I would probably have assumed you were just a huge X-Files fan or something. Actually, thinking about it now, I think the next laptop I buy, I'm going to put an X like that on there, along with a small sticker that just says "I Wa…
FYI: it didn't hurt my laptop, but, over time, the glue from the duct tape melts and fills the depression in the Apple logo. Removing it is not fun.
Well, that's one problem I won't have to worry about. :-)
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Interesting.. I didn't realize that, as I've never bothered to pay the extra fee for the "private" registration. But I do use a less-important GMail account for the email contact, so at least my main email doesn't get swamped. But the phone number on there is actually my personal cellphone, which could be annoying if a lot of people started calling, but so far that doesn't seem to happen.
"But the phone number on there is actually my personal cellphone" Use google voice number that forwards to your cellphone. Or better use a google voice number that doesn't go anywhere.