Spamming My WHOIS Entry<< Sporadic Blogging | Main | What’s In Store at the Apple Store >> Joe Wilcox | March 02, 2004, 11:10 AM My personal e-mail address is spammed with increasing frequency. No other e-mail address suffers so much unwanted e-mail. For months I’ve been looking for a culprit. Sadly, I may have found it. My personal e-mail address is attached to a domain I acquired in August 1995. That e-mail address had been published in the public WHOIS records for that one and the other 11 domains I have registered. Over the weekend, I asked my domain registrar to mask this information, at a cost of $5 per domain/per year. Since, I’ve started to see a slight but noticeably greater-by-the-day decrease in spam volume. It’s a said state of affairs if spammer mining of WHOIS information compels other registrants to take similar action. I’ve used the Internet for about a decade, and I am a strong believer in open, accessible WHOIS information. But, I also need to get productive use out of e-mail, and that starts by closing the easy ways spammers find my main e-mail address. |
 Subscribe for free email updates:
|