[19788] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: .cc domain spam
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Sat Sep 26 03:18:29 1998
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 03:21:40 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net>
To: Elvis <elvis@fallenones.org>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980925213306.12956A-100000@pity.fallenones.org>
On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Elvis wrote:
> Yes, you are certainly not alone. My delete button is getting worn out.
> :) In fact, I get spammed every time I register a new domain by several
> different entities now.
This brings up an interesting question. How are the domainspace.com
creeps getting lists of newly registered domains? Do they have special
access at NetSol? Are they just grabbing the .com and .net zones
periodically, running a diff, and spamming the contacts for new domains?
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