[Shaggy]

I bought a domain from https://www.name.com/ 2 days ago and since yesterday I'm getting tons of E-Mails of people offering their services to me in which I'm not interested. I don't remember signing up to get my email advertised...
Does this happen to you or this a new gig for advertisers?



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[✔ Soufian ✔]

That's kinda usual.
Automated emails immediately after registering, and offering web services and shit.

They simply do a whois check, but I'm still curious how they keep track of freshly never-used new registered domains.
Maybe they check SSL certificate records, idk

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Nevermind, after 1 google query:
https://whoisds.com/newly-registered-domains

They simply download a list, perform whois checks, extract the email and send you mail.

[blackbowman]

I bought a domain from https://www.name.com/ 2 days ago and since yesterday I'm getting tons of E-Mails of people offering their services to me in which I'm not interested. I don't remember signing up to get my email advertised...
Does this happen to you or this a new gig for advertisers?



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they can be scraping public lists, but i dont see why you wouldnt use namecheap instead of name.com

[Cooligan]

I assume you didn't create the site seeing how long ago it was originally registered.

Updated Date: 2019-12-16T17:53:59Z - when you bought it
Creation Date: 1995-01-03T05:00:00Z - original creation date

So with that, it looks like because of how old the site is that whatever email may or may not be attached will get flooded with the requests you're getting. Plus, the email associated with the site is public, not sure if you were aware of that.

https://whois.domaintools.com/name.com

[Shaggy]

That's kinda usual.
Automated emails immediately after registering, and offering web services and Clay Davis.

They simply do a whois check, but I'm still curious how they keep track of freshly never-used new registered domains.
Maybe they check SSL certificate records, idk

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Nevermind, after 1 google query:
https://whoisds.com/newly-registered-domains

They simply download a list, perform whois checks, extract the email and send you mail.

Would you think this kind of advertising by scraping emails is that they are scamming other innocent owners in this way?

they can be scraping public lists, but i dont see why you wouldnt use namecheap instead of name.com

I used namecheap and godaddy too. Only this name.com gave me this emails

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I assume you didn't create the site seeing how long ago it was originally registered.

Updated Date: 2019-12-16T17:53:59Z - when you bought it
Creation Date: 1995-01-03T05:00:00Z - original creation date

So with that, it looks like because of how old the site is that whatever email may or may not be attached will get flooded with the requests you're getting. Plus, the email associated with the site is public, not sure if you were aware of that.

https://whois.domaintools.com/name.com

I've purchased the security package though which includes whois protection so its impossible they can see my email

[LoremIpsum]

Can't you "unsubscribe" to some kind of email list?
If they are public scraping your information there isn't much you can do except mark it as SPAM to put it in your SPAM box.

[✔ Soufian ✔]

Would you think this kind of advertising by scraping emails is that they are scamming other innocent owners in this way?

I used namecheap and godaddy too. Only this name.com gave me this emails

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I've purchased the security package though which includes whois protection so its impossible they can see my email

Does this whois protection provide an email address which forwards to your personal email by any chance?
I'd research this if I were you.

Do a whois check, and see if it's an auto generated email address or a static one.
Usually whoisguard provides an email address which forwards everything to you.

[Shaggy]

Can't you "unsubscribe" to some kind of email list?
If they are public scraping your information there isn't much you can do except mark it as SPAM to put it in your SPAM box.

So far i moved 8 emails on spam box. I hope no more nonsense emails

[✔ Soufian ✔]

I assume you didn't create the site seeing how long ago it was originally registered.

Updated Date: 2019-12-16T17:53:59Z - when you bought it
Creation Date: 1995-01-03T05:00:00Z - original creation date

So with that, it looks like because of how old the site is that whatever email may or may not be attached will get flooded with the requests you're getting. Plus, the email associated with the site is public, not sure if you were aware of that.

https://whois.domaintools.com/name.com

Lmao I laughed at this.
If you re-read his text he says he registered a new domain AT name.com, and didn't register name.com itself.
The actual domain he registered has been censored out of the screenshots.

[LoremIpsum]

So far i moved 8 emails on spam box. I hope no more nonsense emails

Seems like they used your information for marketing purposes for third parties. Too bad my man.
Hopefully you're done soon with receiving them.

[Shaggy]

Does this whois protection provide an email address which forwards to your personal email by any chance?
I'd research this if I were you.

Do a whois check, and see if it's an auto generated email address or a static one.
Usually whoisguard provides an email address which forwards everything to you.

I'll take a look at it, Thank you for the guide

Seems like they used your information for marketing purposes for third parties. Too bad my man.
Hopefully you're done soon with receiving them.

Thank you, HF Soon will be like:

Selling Emails [Software and Web Development] Niche
$1 perr 1k ----

[Cooligan]

Lmao I laughed at this.
If you re-read his text he says he registered a new domain AT name.com, and didn't register name.com itself.
The actual domain he registered has been censored out of the screenshots.

LOL oh c'mon you gotta be kidding me... I need to get it together 🤣
Hoooly shit.

And yet another reason why I have the Dunce award.

I mean you just need to see this one for yourself Omniscient , it tops all the others by a long-shot..  🤦‍♂
This is my post that ✔ Soufian ✔ quoted: https://hackforums.net/showthread.php?ti...id59352310

[Shaggy]

Lmao I laughed at this.
If you re-read his text he says he registered a new domain AT name.com, and didn't register name.com itself.
The actual domain he registered has been censored out of the screenshots.

I wish I had name.com and sell it for million $$$ lol

[Cooligan]

I wish I had name.com and sell it for million $$$ lol

I honestly can't believe that I was quite literally typing in name.com and I didn't realize it even then lol.

[Kill Joy]

Name.com has been whored around to so many companies in the last decade. Not surprised if they sell your data.

Namecheap has free whois protection.