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Questions we answer in this episode

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Episode summary

A domain name is what we think of as a website - facebook.com or makanimason.com. In order to have your own domain, you need to pay some money and share some personal information with a domain name registrar.

This information is then publicly available, unless you choose to make it private through your registrar. Unfortunately for some domains, like ones that end in .us - keeping this information private is prohibited.

Unfortunately, I didn't realize this and registered a .us domain, sharing publicly my name, email address, and phone number. It was a great invitation for hackers and scammers to harass me.

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