Namecheapos: Onslaught of .bio domains spamming our mailboxes

Posted by DomainGang on April 29, 2023, at 4:26 pm

An onslaught of fresh domain name registrations focusing on the .bio gTLD are using Namecheap as the registrar of choice. Currently offering $1.98 registrations of .bio domains, the low price is being abused at Namecheap by spammers that are promoting drones, sexual enhancements, portable wi-fi routers and “smarter backpacks” from dubious sources. Here are some […]

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Wolfspeed.xyz: UDRP filing cost vs. lower asking price

Posted by DomainGang on December 15, 2022, at 10:51 am

When you offer for sale a domain that violates a registered trademark, the low asking price might not be a deterrent for the Complainant. In the case of Wolfspeed.xyz, its registrant sought to get $1,450 dollars or a hundred bucks below the typical cost of a UDRP ($1,500 dollars or so.) The Complainant, Wolfspeed, Inc., […]

Filed under Domain Law · Tagged with .XYZ, Domains, Liuqingru, Spam, UDRP, WIPO, Wolfspeed.xyz, domainnamesusa, grant transfer, premiumdomainseller

Domain spammer claims ICANN gives out investor licenses

Posted by DomainGang on July 20, 2022, at 12:54 pm

An ongoing spam campaign is using the domain name HannahBenson.com, alongside the alias “Hannah Benson.” The spammer targets domain registrants with “similar domains” to the ones being peddled. So far, nothing new about using a faux female name to sell domains, but what sets this spam aside is the included claim that they are an […]

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JumboLeadMagnet.com: The new domain of arch-spammer “Eric Jones”

Posted by DomainGang on January 10, 2022, at 4:30 pm

Serial arch-spammer “Eric Jones“ is an invented name for a company that floods mailboxes and discussion threads with its unsolicited email. Hiding behind the duplicity of Cloudflare’s proxy DNS and registrar services, the “Eric Jones” company sends large amounts of spam across the internet. It’s 2022 and the phuckstick “Eric Jones” is using a new […]

Filed under Domain Crime · Tagged with Cloudflare, Eric Jones, Jumbo Lead Magnet, JumboLeadMagnet.com, Spam, domain spammers, talkwithcustomer.com, talkwithlead.com, talkwithwebvisitor.com

Indian businesses furious about domain spam!

Posted by DomainGang on September 28, 2021, at 3:29 pm

Businesses in India’s Hyderabad district are complaining to the ministry of Corporate Affairs, over an influx of domain sourced spam. Hundreds of small business operators, ranging from mom and pop shops to large hardware stores are receiving a barrage of emails for unsolicited services. These emails begin the moment domain registrations are completed, according to […]

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Another batch of spamming #domains courtesy of #NameCheap and #Cloudflare

Posted by DomainGang on December 11, 2020, at 4:08 pm

TGIF and welcome to another round of relentless spam, courtesy of NameCheap as the domain registrar, and Cloudflare as the DNS proxy provider. This duo really enhances serial spammers’ ability to hide and send out spam from cheap, disposable domain names. That’s what happens when you drop prices for domain registrations and when you offer […]

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Who is this bastard spammer “Eric” from talkwithwebvisitor.com? Wake up, #Cloudflare and #Dynadot

Posted by DomainGang on June 15, 2020, at 4:06 pm

A guy named “Eric Jones” is spamming emails taken from the WHOIS of domains, and also online contact forms. The domain used currently is talkwithwebvisitor.com that is registered with Dynadot and hiding behind the free reverse proxy services of Cloudflare. A typical email from these assholes looks like this: “Hello, my name’s Eric and I […]

Filed under Domain Crime · Tagged with Cloudflare, Dynadot, Eric Jones, Spam, Trade World Corporation, scam, talkwithlead.com, talkwithwebvisitor.com, tradeworldcorporation.com

Dot .TOP #domains top #SpamHaus list of most abused #TLDs

Posted by DomainGang on December 30, 2019, at 4:43 pm

SpamHaus, a global keeper of domain and IP violations, maintains a list of abusive behavior originating from a large variety of gTLDs and TLDs. How does SpamHaus measure that type of negative performance among domain extensions? The abusive behavior of domain TLDs is calculated as the ratio of abusive domains that exist in a given […]

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China’s #eName joins the spamming crowd of registrar “brokers”

Posted by DomainGang on March 27, 2019, at 11:07 am

China’s eName joins the crowd of registrar “brokers” that spam domain owners with unsolicited offers. If you thought that GoDaddy’s practice of using a team of brokers to reach out on behalf of their customers was frustrating enough, here come the Chinese. The practice is the same: both eName and GoDaddy, are registrars that email […]

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First #domain spammer of 2019 : interfacetraders dot .com

Posted by DomainGang on January 2, 2019, at 2:22 pm

The owners of interfacetraders.com, a Pakistani spam factory domain using Western contact names, is the first domain spammer of 2019. Registered at GoDaddy, the mass email spammers’ domain is targeting email addresses via the WHOIS information. These annoying phucksticks often use outdated databases to peddle dubious quality services such as SEO and logo design. In […]

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Barrage of spam from dot .Date #domain names registered at #Namecheap

Posted by DomainGang on July 17, 2018, at 10:55 am

A barrage of spam has been arriving in the past few days, from dot .Date domain names. The emails contain the typical variety of spam, ranging from weight loss and hair restoration products, to learning how to fly planes. The dot .Date registry is dot Date Limited, which at this time is unavailable at the […]

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Gary Thuerk : #Spam email is now 40 years old

Posted by DomainGang on May 7, 2018, at 5:40 pm

On May 1st, 1978, Gary Thuerk sent out the first spam email. Thuerk was a marketing manager at Digital Equipment Corp., who sent the first unsolicited mass email to roughly 400 customers on the Arpanet, predecessor to the Internet. The enterprising marketing guru was hoping to get attention for DEC’s new VAX super computers. And […]

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