When Registrars Spam You, What Can You Do? 8
tregoweth asks: "Today I received a spam that began, 'Register your domain name as a .ST domain too! Just go to: http://www.nic.st.' Normally I use SpamCop to find who to complain to, but...what do you do when a registrar (including NSI) is spamming you? Especially one that's violating its own rules against spamming?"
Here are the headers from tregoweth's SPAM message for those of you interested. It might be a good time to update those procmail filters:
Return-Path: <info@domain4u.st> Received: from mate.pobox.com ([208.210.124.44]) by osgood.mail.mindspring.net (Mindspring Mail Service) with ESMTP id t5i9v5.ukv.30ahi43 for <jyx@mindspring.com>; Sun, 7 Jan 2001 21:37:23 -0500 (EST) Received: from mate.pobox.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mate.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 595687A192 for <jyx@mindspring.com>; Sun, 7 Jan 2001 21:37:23 -0500 (EST) Received: from fep01-svc.swip.net (fep01.swip.net [130.244.199.129]) by mate.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A4AA7A1A3; Sun, 7 Jan 2001 21:37:22 -0500 (EST) Received: from domain4u.st ([193.15.116.252]) by fep01-svc.swip.net (InterMail vM.5.01.01.01 201-252-104) with SMTP id <20010108023721.MDRP5361.fep01-svc.swip.net@domain4u.st>; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 03:37:21 +0100 From: info@domain4u.st Reply-To: info@domain4u.st To: info@domain4u.st Subject: Lock in your domain name now! Message-Id: <20010108023721.MDRP5361.fep01-svc.swip.net@domain4u.st> Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 03:37:21 +0100For the record, www.domain4u.st and www.nic.st, the official registrar for Sao Tome, share the same IP address. Something smells fishy here. Is there anything that can be done about it?
MAPS RBL (Score:1)
It would be interesting to see how effective a registry could be if its address space has ended up in a few BGP black-holes. (Is this still done? It's been a while since I checked.) If the .st nameservers became unreachable, then the whole top-level domain could effectively get black-holed....
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Re:Prevention may be the only cure (Score:1)
Phone call (Score:1)
Re: When Registrars Spam You, What Can You Do? (Score:1)
My personal choice would be to locate their offices and then apply a liberal coating of napalm.
Hell is too good for these people.
Ian
Sincerity (Score:1)
Punishment for Spammers (Score:1)
On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks. -- H. Allen Smith, "Let the Crabgrass Grow"
Complain Upstream (Score:2)
You might try registering a complaint with ICANN, but I think they'd think this sort of activity isn't annoying enough.
Prevention may be the only cure (Score:3)
What I've been doing with the new registrars (and others) I've been dealing with is to sign up with a disposable spamgourmet email address (www.spamgourmet.com [spamgourmet.com] free and ad-free), then, after I've received some important email from them, I go back and 'permit' just the important addresses to keep sending me mail. Sure wish I had done this with NSI...