Anyone who owns a domain and puts out a "real" email address, knows how much spam that generates. Some services charge you to "protect" that info with data they insert. E.G. Protectfly from Registerfly, Enom offers it, etc..

Lately Registerfly has gone crazy with not renewing domain names, taking down people's web hosting, they can barely keep their own site up. And a friend of mine had protectfly and can no longer access the account. Fortunately we have a way around it, but it convinced me that there are not enough safeguards around.

Advice, if you don't want to be spammed, don't trust a registrar to do it for you. Get anti-spam temp email addresses and use those. When spam gets too high, rotate it yourself. Otherwise you might have more problems.

It's an indictment of the system that email is still based on an antiquated system that doesn't verify the from address and reply-to address...and that companies like registerfly can cause so many people to lose domains that have been paid for for years. The industry exacerbates the problem by forcing you to provide real data in your whois and publishing the data publicly.