Tag Archives: spam

Mon 31st August 2015
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Company tries to obey Chinese TM domain scam, fails miserably - The trademark domain name scam is one of the oldest in the book. A registrar from China emails you, saying that someone is trying to register domain names very similar to your trademark or existing domain names. They’re checking with you as a courtesy to see if you’d like to register the domains first. Although it might seem like a kind gesture, it’s all a lie. They’re trying to get you to register domain names through them. Now a Brazil company is apparently trying the same tack. But it ... read more ...
Mon 29th June 2015
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Spamming owners of newly purebred domain names - Just one example of spam based on whois records. We all know that people mine whois databases to sell stuff. It’s incredibly cheap and easy to do these days: compare the zone files, get the new registrations, and then run whois lookups. There are even people selling the entire .com whois database for a few hundred bucks. This makes it easy for people to spam new domain name registrants and sell them services they don’t need, like search engine submission. Last week I registered a handful of .com ... read more ...
Fri 19th June 2015
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Cheap domain names are spammers' favorites - New report shows that spammers love some of the cheap new domain name options. Spammers churn through a lot of domain names. As soon as deliverability sinks with one, they move on to the next. That might explain this chart in Architelos’ June NameSentry Abuse Report: The bulk of improper use of new top level domain names is spam, and this chart shows which new TLDs are being abused the most. See a pattern here? All of the big ones are cheap domains. In fact, all of the domains on this chart can ... read more ...
Mon 28th September 2009
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
ICANN Wants to Trap WHOIS Abusers for Study - Group sends our RFP for whois abuse study. ICANN, through Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO), is seeking proposals from qualified companies to study whois abuse. One of its proposed mechanisms for studying abuse is to set up a number of test domain names to see what happens to the whois data created for them. A similar study (pdf) was conducted in 2007, but only to research whois harvesting for spam. In the new study, GNSO will also check for postal/phone ... read more ...
Wed 11th February 2009
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Re-Ranking KnujOn’s Spam Domain Registrar List - Using a different, simpler, and better methodology, here are the top spam registrars. The internet media goes abuzz when KnujOn (“No Junk” backwards) releases its report of the domain name registrars with the most spam. But few people question the methodology behind the report, and blindly shame the top registrars on the report. If you know me, I don’t take things at face value. And that’s why I’m presenting a re-ranking of KnujOn’s report based on ... read more ...
Thu 12th June 2008
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Dear Maxunis, Thanks for a Spam - Auction seller sends (lots of) spam to promote his domain name. Dear “Maxunis”, I received your e-mail from maxunis@gmail.com this morning about your auction of a domain name on Sedo. In fact, all four of the e-mails. In your four e-mails (from your e-mail address maxunis@gmail.com) you wrote: Dear Sir/Madam, Your website features strongly in search engines when looking for “Adult Video” or “Adult Videos” and I believe this precise and short domain name ... read more ...