If you’ve been receiving email inquiries for your dictionary word domains from a range of Gmail addresses, you aren’t alone.<\/p>\n
These “pings” harvest your email from the WHOIS, and mass-email domain owners with inquiries of questionable syntax, made by people with bogus names.<\/p>\n
I ended up receiving 30 such emails a week, and took a better look at the email headers; it wasn’t hard to locate the actual perpetrator, who used his HostGator account to blast emails via a mass-mailing script.<\/p>\n
After filing several reports at HostGator’s abuse department and getting no response back – another reason to never use HostGator if they support spammers<\/em> – I used DomainTools to scour the recent records of the primary domain sending out this garbage.<\/p>\n As it turns out, an otherwise respectable domainer\/broker runs this mass-emailing venture as a side job; after I left a comment to his public Facebook – which he deleted<\/em> – I got a private message, that pretty much claimed “everyone is doing it.<\/em>”<\/p>\n Our friend went on claiming that the spammer identities are real employees, and that he gets very few complaints from people willing to sell the domains he inquires about. He also asked me to get off my high horse, and let a “hard working man earn a living.<\/em>”<\/p>\n I find all these responses to be childish attempts at justifying a practice that belongs at the very bottom of the food chain<\/strong>; spammers aren’t “hard working men” but lazy phucksticks<\/strong> that deliver junk to people’s mailboxes.<\/p>\n I have no problem with direct inquiries that include a real person’s name, with a direct contact, and a “handwritten” email that addresses me. I despise script-kiddies that consider themselves “brokers” and give the domain industry a bad name at the same time.<\/p>\n Spamming: Not everyone is doing it, and those that do it get ostracized by the domain community, sooner or later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you’ve been receiving email inquiries for your dictionary word domains from a range of Gmail addresses, you aren’t alone. These “pings” harvest your email from the WHOIS, and mass-email domain owners with inquiries of questionable syntax, made by people with bogus names. I ended up receiving 30 such emails a week, and took a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[193,829,1108],"class_list":["post-4329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-domains","tag-acronet","tag-domainer-spam","tag-hostgator","entry"],"yoast_head":"\n