Registration of domains for the sole purpose of Spamming!

Greetings Uniforum,

We have a question regarding domains that are registered, purely for
spamming.

For instance, all of the domains mentioned below are registered (but not
paid for) by the same registrant and ready for suspension as per your
schedule.

2a. Registrant: Expertmail

- carcoversa.co.za
 - get-carcover.co.za
- get-hospitalcover.co.za
- hospitalcovernow.co.za
- insurance-cover-options.co.za
- sa-life.co.za
- sa-lifeinsure.co.za
 - sa-life-insure.co.za

Their MX and WWW records all points to international ISPs. There are
various other domains that we have picked up using the exact same ammo.

Would it be possible for one to log a call with you, as the registrar, and
have these domains removed from the COZA Zone, and ban the registrant from
registering any additional domains?

2a. registrant             : ExpertmaiL
2b. registrantpostaladdress: Po Box 210, CPT,-, , , --
2c. registrantstreetaddress: Po Box 210, CPT
2j. registrantphone        : +27.218582244
2k. registrantfax          : +27.218582244
2l. registrantemail        : [email protected]


The process seems to be

a) register a domain
b) spam
c) COZA suspension & deletion for non-payment
d) register a new domain and repeat

We are aware that you are changing the registration process to only
allow delegation
into the COZA zone after payment received, but given the low cost for a
domain, we are not sure it would help curb this particular problem.

Would it not be beneficial for you as the registrar to take a stronger
stance against this type of domain abuse? Do you have any legal grounds to
be able to do this and would you want to? It is all too easy to register a
domain with false details due to lack of verification.



We are CC'ing IOZ on this email as we believe this particular topic is
relevant to the Internet Community in South Africa.

Would it not be great if all South African ISPs & Hosting Providers come
together and say, block these spammers' web servers (hosted
internationally, since it's cheaper) & domains on their borders/mail
servers or just terminate their services? It is obvious that most of these
international based ISPs really do not care for whether their customers are
relaying spam or hosting the websites on their infrastructure.

Why can we as the ZA community not stand together on this issue? We seem to
be scared to hurt a spammer's feelings even though they are the ones
molesting your mailbox.


We posed that question to several ISPs and Mobile Providers via their
Facebook pages,and their PR guys came back with various answers. Thanks to
those that responded in our quick poll.

Vodacom had a whole different answer - "The company that handles Vodacom
spam filters is SPAMCOP which is one of the biggest spam filter companies
and the rules implemented are set to protect clients from receiving as well
as sending spam. These servers are upgraded by the SPAMCOP regularly."


We at ZASS will be spending our time and educate companies like Frank.NET (
http://www.sa-life-insure.co.za/) over their choice of online marketers and
just how leads are generated and so on. Social Media makes it easy these
days, so why not use it? Nothing else seems to be working!

South African Internet Service Providers simply must band together. It will
never work if ISP A, B, D blocks a spammer, but ISP C, E & F is not playing
along. Is this not a worthy cause for ISPs to work as one or will ISP
politics always.... of course do not forget the money angle since you might
be losing a customer. Money vs a client breaching the Acceptable Use Policy.

Maybe it is time to make use of a local RBL that would prevent ZA Spammer
to jump from one dsl provider/hosting provider to the next. This is
something we will be working on, with the help of some of local ISPs
available to all. We do not care for ISP politics.

Hopefully with POPI, the ZA Internet user will have a bit more power to
take on these companies. We are holding thumbs for ISPA and hope that the
court (http://tinyurl.com/c5b3hgp) will rule in their favour so that
companies like Ketler Presentations will think twice about wasting Internet
resources.


A slight detour there, but coming back to the original question. Uniforum,
anything you can do about these domains registered purely for spamming?


Yours in Anti Spamming!

The #ZASS Team
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