How to deal with spam / uncooperative registrar (Moniker Online Services LLC)

Francesco Ariis fa-ml at ariis.it
Fri Jul 25 18:10:03 UTC 2014


Hello Debian friends,
    I have a problem with spam / registrars that do little to deal with spam
and I wanted opinions on how to act.

Long story short, whenever I receive a spam message, I immediately:

    - notify the ISP whose IP the spam-mail is coming from;
    - if there is a link/a mail address in the body of the message (e.g
      heyhey at example.com or http://www.example.org/page/uid/13412341),
      I notify the registrar.

Every registrars/ISP I contacted was very cooperative in dealing with
unsolicited messages, apart from Moniker Online Services LLC; when I send a
complaint to their abuse/legal department, the reply is:

> Please be aware that Moniker is not the owner or host of this domain, and
> we have no control over the server sending the email.
> The domain owner can be contacted by using the address listed in the
> publicly available whois which can be located at: [...]

In so many words, they plan to do nothing (and searching around a bit, it
seems to be a known problem with them [1]).

Hence, the questions:

    - is there any action I could take to pressure them to deal with this
      situation? I thought reporting them to ICANN, but maybe ICANN doesn't
      deal with these matters.

    - is there a way to get a list of domains registered through them? It
      would be quite useful; I could pass it to mutt and have mail messages
      from those domains automatically marked for deletion

Thanks in advance
-F


[1] http://spamtrackers.eu/wiki/index.php/Moniker#Actual_Behavior




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