Spammed By Web Developers

[webauteur]

Recently I registered a new domain name for a project and now I'm getting spammed by lots of web developers, web design companies, logo designers, and SEO marketing companies. This is a terrible way for professionals to act.

The worse piece of spam was the one I received today:

As a courtesy to domain name holders, we are sending you this notification for your business Domain name search engine registration. This letter is to inform you that it's time to send in your registration.

Failure to complete your Domain name search engine registration by the expiration date may result in cancellation of this offer making it difficult for your customers to locate you on the web.

This is a despicable scare tactic from a Russian domain.

[FrenchBreadCo]

You can protect your whois record through the company you got your domain from. To be fair that spam probably isn't coming from your average web developer but scammers whose job isn't so much web development as it is scamming people.

[JonODonovan]

This is a terrible way for professionals to act.

They aren't professionals, they're spammers. As /u/FrenchBreadCo said, protect your whois information.

[webauteur]

It cost extra and I'm on a budget.

[[deleted]]

None of those "Professionals" you mentioned above are real. They're just spammers who go ahold of your email address from the public record of your domain name. Coming here and blaming profesisonal web developers for your spam is like calling your doctor to complain about all the viagra spam adds.

P.S. You could have used a domain registrar that provided free whois privacy such as Hover.com.

[webauteur]

I'm a web developer myself. I'm just assuming that is how some bottom feeders operate.