Re: [44net] 44Net Digest, Vol 2, Issue 23 - 44net

8 Feb 2013

44net-request(a)hamradio.ucsd.edu wrote:
...
  Last time I tried doing
 whois on a name it failed. The spammers have made it impossible to put up a
 whois because they mined them all for valid emails so organizations had to
 abandon it. Maybe it varies between TLDs.  I never got much spam that I could trace
to .nl domain
name registration (note that .nl now no longer reveals contact info via whois, but they
used to in the past).

On the other hand, what really buried me in spam is registering for some port
numbers and a organization unique ID at IANA.   They published the requester's
mail in a text file on their site, and for port numbers it is in /etc/services.   I have
had to abandon some mail addresses because of it.

Rob