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The innocent victims of DNS abuse complaints

It’s easy to advocate for fast takedowns, but that can hurt legitimate businesses. On February 20, 2020, Domain Name Wire was down. Anyone who operates a website knows that horrible feeling of finding out your site is down and not being able to understand what’s happening. My day got worse as it progressed. It turned […]

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dns abuse, phishing, Policy & Law, Spam

Registrars battle spammers as Whois data goes away

Spammers and scammers have to get creative to contact domain name owners. This month, a GoDaddy customer received an email shortly after registering a domain name. We’ll call the domain example.com for this story. Subject: example.com isn’t registered yet The message suggested it was in some way coming from GoDaddy. Which it sort of was, […]

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Indian businesses furious about domain spam!

Businesses in India’s Hyderabad district are complaining to the ministry of Corporate Affairs, over an influx of domain sourced spam. Hundreds of small business operators, ranging from mom and pop shops to large hardware stores are receiving a ba...
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domain spam, Spam alpnames, compliance, Domain Registries, ebero, intracom, Navigation-information systems, nis, rdds, Spam

Blocked an entire TLD for the spam it produced

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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