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.

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.

Interesting. I have a DID that routes to nowhere on all my domain's whois, maybe I should route it somewhere and see what happens.

I know where you should route it to.. https://www.reddit.com/r/itslenny/

Meh, I prefer something I can operate/monitor. The guy who runs that is very secretive about all of his setup, to "prevent abuse" (unclear what sort of abuse he's afraid of), but highly opposed to others building their own.

Fair enough, I didn't necessarily mean that server. It's true that he's secretive about his setup, but I wouldn't say he's highly opposed to others, after all he's the mod of the subreddit and yet people can freely discuss how to setup their own.