Playing with whois spammer

[Seraphim]

I believe there are 2 members here at this forum that are behind the bulk of this whois spam. My trap is laid.

 

[Gramma]

I am deleting thousands of junk (unsolicited) emails every day, thats a lot of "eye blinks", ...

With your valuable assets - I'm sure you can afford an anti-spam application. Heck I'm just a little old gramma and I have one.

You got 2 emails inquiring about a domain in 4 months. That didn't sprain your finger deleting those. When you answered that email - you invited a response yourself - I mean who the hell ANSWERS spam? If I replied 'no thank you' to everyone that emailed me wanting to make my little soldier go into the battle bigger' I would get tired of it too. Instead - I have that handy dandy spam program. blink blink
Denny - i'm getting the impression that you like being a dick.... am I wrong?

You know the fun you had with the spammer? Gosh i know how you felt now :yes::lol:

 

[denny007]

I'm sure you can afford an anti-spam application

I OF COURSE do have several (greylisting, bayesian filter), otherwise I would be getting - dunno - 20K spams a day...

You got 2 emails inquiring about a domain in 4 months

I got about 500 emails inquiring about domains. I usually ignore it and sometimes, if I am in the mood, I play with those fokers.

Denny - i'm getting the impression that you like being a dick.... am I wrong?

I'm getting the impression that Alzheimer's is knocking on your door...am I wrong?

 

[Bender]

just received an email from [email protected]

 

[Gramma]

I'm getting the impression that Alzheimer's is knocking on your door...am I wrong?

Now that was a great comeback
:clap2:

 

[Bender]

And you just got yourselves a BAD FAITH for WIPO !
Congratulations !

ok, then cut the 'Unless you're loaded' part -surely beats spending your precious time replying them with "$500" or "what's NS"?
you could use that time to find more domains

 

[denny007]

ok, then cut the 'Unless you're loaded' part -surely beats spending your precious time replying them with "$500" or "what's NS"?

C'mon I can not always work - I need sometimes relax too, no ?
Play with whois spammers, post some bullshit on DNF etc...

 

[katherine]

And you just got yourselves a BAD FAITH for WIPO !
Congratulations !

So it's a TM domain ?
You can still be challenged whether you offered the name for sale or not...

 

[domain newbie]

I've got a feeling you've just invited them to spam you more..

 

[denny007]

So it's a TM domain ?
You can still be challenged whether you offered the name for sale or not...

Every domain is potential TM. I learned from here:
http://domains.adrforum.com/domains/decisions/1042478.htm

It was some minor and fresh TM regged by some camel jockey with horrible english who has some lousy clothing store in SFO. Without offering the domain for sale they would not have proof of bad faith. And it actually was NOT a bad faith, it was $60 Snapnames drop which I took because it had some expired traffic from original www. I renewed the original page (porcelain export) while the TM (regged in 2007, fresh) was for clothing. Vievie is also girls name. So it was NOT a bad faith. Never heard of this camel jockey ever before (and never will again, unless he makes some terrorist attack ).

What I learned from this:
--do NOT reply any request
--do not spend any time on defending $60 domain (the time which I spent on it had 10 times more value than the domain itself)

 

[Mr. Deleted]

Denny... what about looking at it from another angle.

Many legitimate businesses and even many entrepreneurs still think you register domains for two years and so every two years you'll "pay your money for the domain"... and everything just continues as is. Many people I consult still have old information on their whois, because they didn't know how to update their information about their domain (or didn't even know they could).

So, if you have someone like this that is just learning how to look up a whois to see if they can buy a domain, they might be just thinking its been a long time since you updated. (And yes even if the whois has a "date last updated", that doesn't matter to someone who is legitimately just trying to buy a domain and doesn't really understand the industry.)

He asked if the domain was for sale? You said $500. He said great. Then you insulted him.

Couldn't you have just typed an initial five word email. "Domain not for Sale, Thanks"

You should have seen the BOOB.com offer he (Denny) got for 7K, when he paid 80.

 

[domain newbie]

wonder why is he banned?

 

[Giode]

The problem is "bulk" Whois spamers. It's the lazy way of trying to get ahead. Whois messages such as "not for sale" are invisible to these guys. I have no problem with people making personalized inquiries on domains, AFTER they have taken the time to check if it is being utilized or not with a live site or Parking, or whatever.... If a domain doesn't resolve, or hasn't been updated in ages, there shouldn't be a problem.

It's when some lazy POS emails every generic domain in existence without any due diligence on his part, that I get aggravated.

 

[TLDN]

I got TWO from "Michael Sumner" today...