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Re: godaddy spam / abuse suspensions?
From: Andrew Fried <andrew.fried () gmail com>
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 17:38:50 -0500
Chances are if the domain has been sandboxed, it was because it was involved in some kind of phishing scheme, not spam. This is the typicaly way of mitigating fast flux botnets. So I don't agree with the assessment that this is bad behavior on the part of GoDaddy - to the contrary, they are acting quite responsibly. AF James Hess wrote:
I don't think he wants the domain. The problem is Godaddy listing NS records for some domains (for any reason) to only DNS servers that were all down or didn't exist. The entry of only lame DNS servers is an inconclusive situation and doesn't let a message be permanently rejected as spam; it's indistinguishable from a temporary failure of all that domain's DNS servers. It also causes (hopefully non-fatal) problems for hosts looking up the contacting host's ip, like wasteful repeated queries. This is not good behavior on the registrar's part; Godaddy would almost be better seving the internet community by ignoring spam and doing nothing, or forwarding reports to ISPs rather than introducing lame DNS zones. Registrars aren't really in a place to be able to stop spam; the spammer can simply use any domain or have their reverse zone changed accordingly, if they have custom reverse. But for a registrar to do their best.. by pulling domains where they have proof the owner has performed or authorized spam, they should pull the domain from the TLD zone entirely and let the response be NXDOMAIN. A NXDOMAIN response allows the mail server to definitively reject the message and move on. -- -J On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 12:19 PM, Rohan Sheth <rohan () rs3net net> wrote:Name has been suspended for "supposed" abuse by the godaddy abuse team. I believe the only recourse is to email abuse () godaddy com (cc president () godaddy com) asking what they want to release the domain to you. I believe the usual charge is like $75 or so. --Rohan
-- Andrew Fried andrew.fried () gmail com
Current thread:
- godaddy spam / abuse suspensions? mike (Nov 16)
- Re: godaddy spam / abuse suspensions? Rohan Sheth (Nov 16)
- Re: godaddy spam / abuse suspensions? James Hess (Nov 16)
- Re: godaddy spam / abuse suspensions? Andrew Fried (Nov 16)
- Re: godaddy spam / abuse suspensions? James Hess (Nov 16)
- Re: godaddy spam / abuse suspensions? Suresh Ramasubramanian (Nov 16)
- Re: godaddy spam / abuse suspensions? Jeremy Jackson (Nov 16)
- Re: godaddy spam / abuse suspensions? Mark Andrews (Nov 16)
- RE: godaddy spam / abuse suspensions? Skywing (Nov 16)
- Re: godaddy spam / abuse suspensions? Jeremy Jackson (Nov 17)
- Re: godaddy spam / abuse suspensions? James Hess (Nov 16)
- Re: godaddy spam / abuse suspensions? Rohan Sheth (Nov 16)