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I own a handful of domains and have my real contact info in all of them. Aside from annual postal (!) mail from registrars offering to renew them at about 10x the normal price, I don't really get any spam from these that I've seen.

I never answer the phone if the caller ID is unknown, so I may be missing some there also.

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Yeah, I was going to chime in. I've had an accurate whois for my domains since the early 2000s and at most I get a couple pieces of junk mail around renewal time. No idea if I get any spam from it, the spam filter seems to do a good enough job of junking that.

The idea of hiding the contact information never quite made sense to me. If you're a business, then you already have to provide an address of record to the state for certified mail to go to.

If, as a private citizen, I am running a controversial website then there are already institutes in place that will receive, process, and provide anonymity for your physical mailing address.

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