I hate it, and I’m tired of getting it when I do not sign up for this garbage. Now my home e-mail is only used for very close friends and for online bill payment stuff. Now why is it that every day I must get bombarded by spam? Like today, the caption of the e-mail by someone I didn’t know mind you was More Power to You! and inside regarding penis size. Ya, I’m gonna have to worry about that. So I go to Whois and do a search on their so-called website of grandmadam.com and this is what I get
[quote]Website Title: Email Removal
Response Code: 206
SSL Cert: No valid SSL on this Host, Get Secure
Alexa Trend/Rank: 861,745 (1 Month) 1,701,741 (3 Month)
Website Status: Active
Reverse IP: Web server hosts 31 websites (reverse ip tool requires free login)
Server Type: Apache/2.0.55 (Unix) PHP/4.4.1
(Spry.com also uses Apache)
IP Address: 218.201.44.250 (ARIN & RIPE IP search)
IP Location: - Chong Qing Yi Dong Idc Yong Hu
[b]Blacklist Status: Listed - Cached Today (details) [/b]
Cached Whois: Cached today
Whois History: 6 records stored
Oldest: 2005-11-19
Newest: 2005-12-13
Record Type: Domain Name
Monitor: Monitor or Backorder
Wildcard search: ‘grandmadam’ or ‘grand madam’ in all domains.
Other TLDs:
.com .net .org .info .biz .us
X [5 available domains]
Name Server: NS1.GRANDMADAM.COM
ICANN Registrar: ENOM, INC.
Created: 2005-02-22
Expires: 2006-02-22
Status: REGISTRAR-LOCK[/quote]
Now if you look at the Blacklist Status it says it is blacklisted. Now why the hell can’t the domain people shut these sites down if they are blacklisted already? That was the second one I looked up today and they were both blacklisted. This one was registered through namecheap.com
http://www.blogexplosion.com/members/poll.php
is the url u wanted…
Wow, that’s a great link! I never knew about that! I’m going to use that every time I get annoying spam!
PS love the snowflakes falling. Makes me feel very festive!
Leigh
http://www.mendingresolute.com
http://www.thespinningpen.blogspot.com
I have a work e-mail and while I was away on vacation last spring, the temp that was hired went to all these iffy websites, and I get about 100 spam e-mails a day. I can’t stand it. I block all the senders, click on the links at the bottom of the e-mails to unsubscribe, and still I get all this junk mail. There should be a better way to deal with spam. Its dangerous — spam spreads virus. I think the internet company really needs to do something about spam.
Leigh - Welcome for the links and tks
Trisha - Ya I don’t think the internet companies do enough to block it out either. I mean if the domain people have it blacklisted our ISP’s should too. There should be some sort of list to go out to each company to be updated on a regular basis.
spams… how i hate them. they make me feel small (enlarge this, enlarge that)… *sigh*
but bad news is… once you’re on their list, the only was out is to get a new email. *sigh*
A recent survey found that about 80% of all domains are fraudulently registered… a whois search shows zipcodes such as XXX-XXX and names that are blatantly faked - ‘ahgfahfhaf’ being my favourite.
I can’t remember where I saw this… wait, it was on the BBC news site… if I find the article I’ll drop it by.
Yeah, spam stinks. I use Mailwasher which at least allows me to intercept and screen e-mails before they reach my e-mail client.