When I registered my domain name last week, I was not so comfortable providing my regular email ID. As this will be public in the whois information of my domain, it can be potentially used by whois harvesters to spam me.
However, this is required by my registrar (GoDaddy) to contact me periodically. Ofcourse, there is a paid solution from the registrar itself to make a private domain registration. But, I was wondering if there was a free and simple solution.
After some google search and quite a bit of reading found a simple but effective service called myprivacy.ca
What does myprivacy do?
- Provides an email id with a @myprivacy.ca domain. Emails to this ID will be forwarded to your valid email ID.
- Allows (with no filtering) any email from The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) and a set of participating ICANN Registrars.
- Everyone else gets a simple challenge email. The sender needs to respond with a reply to this email. This happens for the first email that a sender sends to you. Once you approve the sender, that email ID is whitelisted.
Whats more, you can have a whitelist of email IDs or domains you want to allow without sending a challenge email. This helped me as GoDaddy is not in the list of participating ICANN registrars. I had to just add its domain name in my whitelist.
That’s it! Simple and easy. Though, I am using this to block spam from originating from whois information this can be used for general purpose (private) email too.
So, how are you protecting protecting yourself from SPAM? Do you know of a better solution than this which is free?
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