When you start a website get the domain setup and to save money decide against using the domain privacy. Than you get 12 calls the next day from India. Or web "development companies."

I always use WhoIs Guard on my domains. I host a website on a Raspberry and I've registered the domain with my exact personal info.
I've got no problem with my full name online, but I think it's good to hide phone number and home address for a couple of dollars.

I got my site running through digital ocean with Google domains, been up a while and no calls yet

@kp15 there isn't anything wrong with it if I contact you. But it's my personal cell phone on the do not call list. Companies should respect it if they want my business.

@skprog
Spammers gonna spam...
There's nothing you can do about it, except keeping your contact details private.
Here where I live people get plenty of calls from ISPs, satellite tv providers, random promoters... all you can do is opting out from commercial use of your personal infos when you fill documents. It doesn't always work.
This to say that even IRL sometimes privacy is not respected, online it can only get worse.

@Balzy I just altered my icann contact info and replaced it with a number from one of the web developers companies that called me. Lol

@skprog
LOL, nice one!
You reminded me of someone writing a firewall rule to redirect SSH login attempts back to the computer originating them.
Chinese hackers were unknowingly hacking themselves