Emails you get @ reregistered / dropped names...

[devolution]

I'd be interested to hear of any interesting emails people have received at domains they registered which dropped or were previously registered.

I get some curious ones from time to time - mainly CVs.

This evening I received some CV of a CEO of a very large communications firm. He also was sales director of Worldcom for a time.

It's quite worrying - all his personal details and everything are in there.

 

[.com.net.org]

It's common to have emails from previous domain.

Why should you worry about CV email ?

 

[Mr Webname]

Originally posted by .com.net.org
It's common to have emails from previous domain.

Why should you worry about CV email ?

I don't suppose devolution is TOO worried, but if I was the CEO who sent it I WOULD be worried!
I would return it with a brief explanation.

 

[.com.net.org]

Originally posted by Mr Webname


I don't suppose devolution is TOO worried, but if I was the CEO who sent it I WOULD be worried!
I would return it with a brief explanation.

That's right, the CEO is the one should worry about it.

 

[nicorlino]

from time to time i get invited to some rocket engineering workshops. that's quite frightening too, because from what the mails say, they are doing some serious workshops. i contacted the previous owner, but he didn't respond.
nico

 

[namedropper]

I actually got a phone call about a dropped name that I reregistered. It turns out that some site that sells some occult products and does some porn of the owner used to own a name I know own, and the webserver still spits out webmaster @ that domain as the person to contact when there's a server error message.

So this one brainchild decides that he isn't just going to email. He looks up the whois for the address in the error message (and not for the domain he was actually at) and calls me to tell me that the server had an error when he was trying to see the porn. He also looked at the DNS server names for my current name and was going to contact my ISP to tell them that this other website had poor security and stuff. I told him that neither I nor my webhost does any porn sites and that he was really confused and should leave us alone.

It wasn't until later that I figured out that the problem was that the old site server was still spitting out webmaster @ now my domain as a contact address. I hope the porn-deprived geek got ahold of the appropriate people and bugged them about it.

 

[Shiftlock]

I was contacted by a guy who used to have an email address at one of my domains that used to be owned by an ISP. He forgot the password to his old ICQ account, which was a very low-numbered account (low six digits), and he wanted to know if he could have the ICQ system send the password to the registered email address, and then have me forward it to him. These low-numbered ICQ accounts can be quite valuable, but I did the honorable thing and gave the guy his ICQ account back.

But this gave me an idea, and I spent an hour looking up the email addresses of low-numbered ICQ accounts until I found one that had an email address at a domain that was not registered. This account had obviously been abandoned for many years. I registered the domain, had the password sent to me, and now I have a very low ICQ account number (264157). I don't use ICQ, so if anyone wants this ICQ account, PM me an offer.

 

[Dusen]

I'll give you ALL my DNFBucks!

 

[Nexus]

I get all sorts of e-mails. The oddest one not EVEN for an expired name. At a time when I owned the .COM to an increasingly popular .NET based hosting service. Someone called me up on a Sunday morning with an "Ah, hah! I have you now!" attitude. Apparently, their tech-support messages hadn't been answered to their satisfaction, and presumably, they just learned how to use "whois" to "get at" the apparent owner of the company. At first, he thought I was running a line on him to get him off the phone, then he felt stupid when a friend of his (he called onto the line) affirmed his mistake. I was oddly polite and clear minded for being someone woken up on a misunderstanding. Because they gave customers e-mails at their domain, often their customers mistyped the .COM, so I did recieve some of those e-mails. Weird.

Not long after that I sold the name to them, so happy trails. I wonder if they've been reading all my e-mails?

~ Nexus

 

[devolution]

I've had something similar, Nexus.

I've got the domain Seems.co.uk, and kept getting this bloke emailing me, complaining why his sites were down.
I told him that whoever owned the domain before let it expire, and no wonder the sites were down.

Anyhow, he sent me a WHOIS record of the domains he claimed were hosted on my domain.
I mean what a n00b - the actualy WHOIS record showed that the domain was SEEM.co.uk - and not SEEMS.co.uk - he couldn't even see that s on the end!

That's the most wacky thing I've seen - and he claimed to be a website designer... roflmao