Total aside, but I recently purchased a .us domain name for the first time. I was on my phone and signing up with the Namecheap app. I thought it odd that it

Total aside, but I recently purchased a .us domain name for the first time. I was on my phone and signing up with the Namecheap app. I thought it odd that it didn't ask for privacy protection, but I figured I'd quickly turn it on after the fact and didn't get around to it until later that night. I used our home phone as the phone number for the site. The next day we got no fewer than fifty spam phone calls, and the email address I offered was quickly inundated with over a hundred spam messages. It was absolutely nuts. Fortunately, I used an email alias and just turned it off. Likewise, I have a Callcentric VOIP number for the home, so I was able to add a "press six to continue" prompt, but I can't change that number without a lot of pain and I now no longer get the automated phone calls from the school (we still get them through the app). Since then, the call volume has dropped off, but I can see in the logs that we still get several per day. After all of that I learned that privacy protection is not available for .us domains. No wonder they're so cheap. A long way of saying, if you sign up for a .us domain, definitely do not give them your real information.