[92701] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [Fwd: Important ICANN Notice Regarding Your Domain Name(s)]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Sobol)
Thu Oct 5 14:22:31 2006
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 14:21:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: Steve Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net>
To: Alexander Harrowell <a.harrowell@gmail.com>
Cc: Joe Abley <jabley@ca.afilias.info>,
Chris Stone <cstone@axint.net>, <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0610051103510.15061-100000@amethyst.justthe.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Thu, 5 Oct 2006, Steve Sobol wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Oct 2006, Alexander Harrowell wrote:
>
> > Are you sure it's genuine? Those WWD domains (especially
> > secureserver.net) account for a large fraction of the spam and
> > phishing attempts I receive.
>
> SecureServer.net is GoDaddy.
>
> If you have domains hosted at GoDaddy or a reseller, your customer
> notifications come from that domain.
Following up to myself: I understand that you can still get phishes
purporting to be from them. But if you can verify that the message came
from secureserver, don't write it off as a phish without doing some
further checking.
--
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