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>From: Simon Byrnand

>To: nznog@list.waikato.ac.nz

>Subject: Domainz falling prey to spambots?

>Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 09:39:04 +1200

>Hi Everyone,

>I've just noticed a disturbing trend in the last few days. I've started

>receiving considerable spam to an address (which is actually just an alias)

>which we *only* use as the technical contact address when registering new

>domains with domainz.

>(I won't say what it is in this forum, least I make life easy for any

>spambots that havn't found it yet :)

>Email is *never* sent from this address, it is *not* on any of our web

>pages or used in way except to be listed as technical contact. (In case

>anyone just looked up our own domain, that is not the contact address in

>question, we've only been using it for registrations in the last couple of

>months)

>This poses the question - just how have the spambots got hold of it ? Maybe

>they got lucky, and guessed it, but I don't think so. That leaves the

>domainz website, and whois servers. For a spambot to be able to find

>contact details of a domain, it would have to know the domain existed in

>the first place, as to my knowledge domainz don't provide a "list" of

>domains they have in their registry for exactly this sort of reason.

>And yet only a few months ago there was the case of the disreputable

>Australian registry that somehow managed to get a list of a large number of

>.co.nz's and their contact details, presumably through some kind of

>automated queries.

>I'm curious if anyone else has received spam to an address they know for

>certain is only used as contact details on domains registered at domainz...

>Regards,

>Simon Byrnand

>iGRIN Internet

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