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There is a tremendous amount of spam circulating 24/7 and domain investors often receive hundreds of emails daily. In recent years I’ve identified the two primary reasons unsolicited email has increased in volume: Cheap, throwaway domain names, a...
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March 2, 2021 Theo Develegas
.cyou, block tld, Cloudflare, domain spammers, Namecheap, Spam
Spam from cheap domain registrations provided via agreements between registrars and registries is spreading like the Coronavirus. Dozens of disposable domains are registered for a couple of dollars a pop, sending out massive amounts of unsolicited emai...
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December 16, 2020 DomainGang
.co spam, .cyou spam, .monster spam, Cloudflare, Domain Crime, domain spam, Namecheap
TGIF and welcome to another round of relentless spam, courtesy of NameCheap as the domain registrar, and Cloudflare as the DNS proxy provider. This duo really enhances serial spammers’ ability to hide and send out spam from cheap, disposable doma...
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December 11, 2020 DomainGang
Cloudflare, Domain Crime, domain spam, Namecheap, serial spammers, Spam, Spammers
Serial domain spammers love NameCheap and its combination of inaction to reports of abuse and bulk priced deals. Right now, NameCheap offers $4.88 registrations for .Asia domains, along with $1.28 for .Cloud domains. What a great combo for the phucksti...
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December 2, 2020 DomainGang
Cloudflare, Domain Crime, Namecheap, Spammers
Sedo.com is the busy web site of a major domain industry corporation, with millions of unique visitors annually. Sedo, a DomainGang sponsor, boasts the biggest domain name inventory on the Internet, as a marketplace with millions of domains. Such traff...
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November 9, 2020 DomainGang
Cloudflare, Cloudflare DNS, Distributed Denial of Service, Sedo.com
Domain registrar DirectNic has dropped Talkwithwebvisitor.com, an arch-spammer of stupid emails spread like Covid-19 virus around the Internet. Thousands of emails from eric@talkwithwebvisitor.com are sent non-stop for months. Prominent email abuse tra...
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November 4, 2020 DomainGang
Cloudflare, Domain Crime, domain spammers, phucksticks, Spammers, talkwithcustomer.com, talkwithwebvisitor.com
A few days ago we noted how cheap dot .ICU domains are being registered en masse at NameCheap, and are used for spam. The spammers are using email databases grazed from WHOIS records and send a streak of emails advertising drones, weight loss products,...
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October 8, 2019 DomainGang
Cloudflare, domain spam, domain spammers, Namecheap
The secret wholesale prices for hundreds of TLDs have been leaked, due to an alleged “bug” at a registrar. The registry fees for some 259 TLDs, including those managed by Donuts, Verisign and Afilias, are currently publicly available online...
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July 1, 2019 Kevin Murphy
Cloudflare, Domain Registrars, rra, wholesale, xyz.com
GoDaddy is getting whacked on Twitter, by users who spent 10-15 years with the domain registrar, but are now moving to Cloudflare. The reverse proxy services provider, is an ICANN accredited domain registrar, offering domains at cost. What does “...
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March 13, 2019 DomainGang
at cost domains, Cloudflare, cloudflare domains
Content delivery network provider Cloudflare has promised to sell domains in all TLDs at the wholesale cost, with no markup, forever. The company made the commitment yesterday as it announced its intention to get into the registrar business. Founder Ma...
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September 28, 2018 Kevin Murphy
Cloudflare, Domain Registrars, tierra, zoho