[dns-operations] Denying Whois DB by GeoIP

[Doug Barton]

"Regular" spam, or spam related to the registration of the name itself? 
(You registered this awesome domain, now let me build a website for 
you!) I see the latter sometimes, but then little or nothing after that.

Doug

On 06/09/2017 09:38 PM, Jothan Frakes wrote:
> I get spam and also telemarketers and robo calls to email addresses and 
> telephone numbers created anew for whois contact on a registration 
> within 24 hours of a domain registration.
> 
> I really cannot trust or agree with any assertion that whois information 
> is not the origin, directly or via intermediary, in the presence of such 
> empirical proof to the contrary.
> 
> That said, I want people like John to have access to the information 
> that they need in order to fight the good fight.
> 
> On Jun 10, 2017 5:47 AM, "John Levine" <johnl at taugh.com 
> <mailto:johnl at taugh.com>> wrote:
> 
>     In article <20170610023033.GC16459 at clanspum.net
>     <mailto:20170610023033.GC16459 at clanspum.net>> you write:
>      >I pretty strongly disagree with this. I get _tons_ of spam to the
>     email
>      >address I only use for domain registrations.
> 
>     I get practically none to the address I use only on DNS registrations.
>     These days there are so many spam address lists floating around that
>     it's not worth their effort to futz with whois.
> 
>     It looks like you've been using the same contact address for a long
>     time.  Spammers did scrape whois addresses 15 or 20 years ago, but
>     that was then.
> 
>     Regards,
>     John Levine, johnl at iecc.com <mailto:johnl at iecc.com>, Primary
>     Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
>     Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. http://jl.ly