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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