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Of course GoDaddy is scummy, but this is not the only way your information could have been obtained. During the transfer out period, you must provide unmasked c

Of course GoDaddy is scummy, but this is not the only way your information could have been obtained. During the transfer out period, you must provide unmasked contact info. There are services that crawl this info and provide a full historical ownership history. So if your information was ever available in whois, including during the short transfer window, it has been crawled. That said GoDaddy has never been a good registrar anyway. I'm just going by what you are saying: that not using GoDaddy email means they couldn't have contacted you. Not using GoDaddy email service is irrelevant and your mention of it at all implies you aren't aware of how your information can get out. It's certainly possible to prevent it but you're not giving the vibe that you understand this.

JustARandomGuy 5y ago
Perhaps I should have been more explicit. What I meant is when Godaddy contacted me to purchase my domain name, that domain name was in no way mapped to my account - it was not using any GoDaddy services at all. The only way they could have gotten my personal email address was to (1) get the info from WHOIS which Cloudflare blocks - they have a contact form instead of showing the email address or (2) get my email from the past purchase forms. And in fact they did get my email from the past purchase because I use separate email accounts for my domain registrations and a separate account for domain purchases.