[IAG-WHOIS conflicts] [New post] Spamming owners of newly registered domain names

[Christopher Wilkinson]

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> FYI.
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> << … people mine whois databases to sell stuff. It’s incredibly cheap and easy to do these days: compare the zone files, get the new registrations, and then run whois lookups. 
> There are even people selling the entire .com whois database  … >>
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> Although the technical details as to 'how it is done' escape me, it would appear that this report is relevant to the question of Whois privacy.
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> Regards
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> CW
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>> From: Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News & Views <donotreply at wordpress.com>
>> Subject: [New post] Spamming owners of newly registered domain names
>> Date: 29 Jun 2015 20:50:33 GMT+02:00
>> To: mail at christopherwilkinson.eu
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>> New post on Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News & Views
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>> Spamming owners of newly registered domain names
>> by Andrew Allemann
>> Just one example of spam based on whois records.
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>> We all know that people mine whois databases to sell stuff. It's incredibly cheap and easy to do these days: compare the zone files, get the new registrations, and then run whois lookups. There are even people selling the entire .com whois database for a few hundred bucks.
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>> This makes it easy for people to spam new domain name registrants and sell them services they don't need, like search engine submission.
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>> Last week I registered a handful of .com domain names at Uniregistry. Shortly thereafter I received this email: Click here to continue reading...
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>> Andrew Allemann | June 29, 2015 at 1:45 pm | Tags: spam, whois | Categories: Policy & Law | URL: http://domainnamewire.com/?p=46535
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