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retired_member6 · 24-05-2006, 08:59:53 AM

When you reg a domain and you get the usual spam on it when it's just been regd, where do the spammers get their lists? is it when I list on sedo on some sort of 'latest additions' or by them checking a whois resource of recently acquired domains. How do they do it?

A-Wing · 24-05-2006, 11:12:53 AM

With .coms the details are made pretty public. With .co.uk's if it is a domain that has been previously used then you will get a backlog of spam retries hit you. It wouldn't surprise me if sedo was scraped as well, I have seen very bizarre ways of getting hold of email addresses by spammers in the last couple of months.
I also wouldn't be surprised if a few of the cheaper registries sold off lists of domains.

retired_member6 · 24-05-2006, 12:17:53 PM

It's not previous spam, it's targetted at newly regd domains, it's either via sedo or they watch another site like nominet whois or deleting etc.

24-05-2006, 08:59:53 AM	#1 (permalink)
retired_member6 Banned Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 5,740 No Classified Ratings Domain Trader Rating: (100% / 41)	Domain Spam When you reg a domain and you get the usual spam on it when it's just been regd, where do the spammers get their lists? is it when I list on sedo on some sort of 'latest additions' or by them checking a whois resource of recently acquired domains. How do they do it?

24-05-2006, 11:12:53 AM	#2 (permalink)
A-Wing Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Northamptonshire & London Posts: 204 No Classified Ratings Domain Trader Rating: (0% / 0)	With .coms the details are made pretty public. With .co.uk's if it is a domain that has been previously used then you will get a backlog of spam retries hit you. It wouldn't surprise me if sedo was scraped as well, I have seen very bizarre ways of getting hold of email addresses by spammers in the last couple of months. I also wouldn't be surprised if a few of the cheaper registries sold off lists of domains. __________________ [SIZE="1"]Andrew Hutchings - Linux Jedi - http://www.linuxjedi.co.uk/ A-Wing Internet Services - http://www.a-wing.co.uk/[/SIZE]

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24-05-2006, 12:17:53 PM	#3 (permalink)
retired_member6 Banned Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 5,740 No Classified Ratings Domain Trader Rating: (100% / 41)	It's not previous spam, it's targetted at newly regd domains, it's either via sedo or they watch another site like nominet whois or deleting etc.