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 - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog