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Register.com Wins Preliminary Injunction Against Verio

Posted by michael on from the one-less-spam-in-my-box-today dept.

soupa points out that Register.com has successfully obtained an injunction against Verio for using Register's whois database to spam for domain hosting business. Ahem, while they're at it, they need to go after Interland too, who sends me multiple snail mail advertisements per week to my domain contact address. What are they thinking? I didn't bite on their offer last week, but maybe this week I'll be looking for domain hosting? Here's Register.com's press release. Update: 12/11 5:52 PM by michael: I received some junk mail from Register.com today (the same day this was posted, if you're reading later), asking if I wanted to register some domains with them; it was, of course, addressed to the address culled from Internic's database. So let's keep Register.com's position straight: other people spamming from whois database: BAD; Register.com spamming from whois database: GOOD. Just so that's clear.

6 comments

  1. Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. by www.sorehands.com · · Score: 2
    Did you notice that register.com included charges under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. in the complaint?

    I'd like to see some of the SPAM harvesters to get hit with that. Emails on websites are to be used to contact people, not to spam people. I had to take off the emails and write cgi to prevent spammers from getting the address.

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  2. About friggen time by rvr · · Score: 1
    Am I ever glad a spammer is finally seeing a legal foot coming down. Way to go register.com! And what, it only took about a year to do! Maybe its just been a bad week, but I have been getting extra spam and now feel that public floggings for spamming just might be a good idea.


    Protons have mass? I didn't even know that they were catholic.

  3. Interland Snailmail Ads by CritterNYC · · Score: 1

    Interland's snailmail ads can't be that effective. One site I host with Interland I receive snailmail ads for saying "switch to Interland". Hello... the site IS at Interland.

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  4. Boo ya! by WickedClean · · Score: 1

    Finally, a spammer is getting what's due to them. I sometimes write spammers back and tell them I'm turning them, especially when they try to sell me mp3's of rap albums or some crap like that. I actually reported one guy to the RIAA. Hahahahah. He was trying to sell me Eminem bootlegs....he deserved getting busted for pushing that junk. Snoogans.

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    1. Re:Boo ya! by X-Dopple · · Score: 1

      And then they write back to you, and more spam pours into your email box. One day it's Eminem bootlegs, the next it could be Britney Spears or 'NSync crap.

      I seem to remember one case where a fed-up AOL user started emailing the spammers back their own spam, with a few words interchanged. "business" to "penis" for example.

  5. The line by www.sorehands.com · · Score: 2
    I get so much spam, I like seeing them slapped.

    Keep in mind, if Register.com wins, it may be winning based on a click-wrap license. How far do you want this click-wrap licenses to go?

    By reading this, you agree to send me all your money.

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