Spam on Anti-Spam Services: Private Domain Registration
Pranam Kolari, 1:00pm 23 October 2006Domain registration services are now jumping into the private domain registration market, offering workaround to ICANN policies:
ICANN, the international governing body for domain names, requires every Registrar to maintain a publicly accessible “WHOIS” database displaying all contact information for all domain names registered.
Of course protecting personal information has advantages, all of which go with marketing of these services:
- Stop domain-related spam
- Deter identity theft & fraud
- Prevent harassers & stalkers
- End data mining
- Protect your family’s privacy
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The service is offered for an additional fee, and the market is huge..
What concerns me though is how these services are used by spammers. I recently stumbled across illegitimate use when looking up a couple of domains (1, 2) associated with spam blogs/splogs. On further investigation I noticed that these services are in use by a host of other splogs.
I just submitted a report to DomainsByProxy about some questionable domains. Are they responsive to such reports? Well, I don’t know. Stay tuned.
Ebiquity Blog
January 9th, 2008 at 7:02 pm
I’ve been getting a ton of instant messenger spam from Godaddy’s Domain by Proxy clients. I’ve found godaddy abuse staff to be very difficult to deal with. They will reject abuse complaints for all sort of reasons, usually by playing “not my department”.
Also you should read Godaddy’s policy on sueing the spammers who use their private domain service. You have to PAY godaddy to get the real contact info.
Also even if you manged to prove to godaddy that their client is spamming, it is goaddy policy to just fine spammers and let them go on spamming.
Godaddy is black hate.