the level of spam mails to email addreses listed in whois databases may depend on the popularity of your web site i.e. how well linked it is, as it seems to me that there are bots around traversing thru the net following links and sending random queries to the whois databases to obtain the owner's addresses on every new site visited.
There is a whois service on my site and about 1...2 new bots can be found every day trying to abuse this service. Since bots get blacklisted very quickly, not much harm is done. However, last week I had some stupid guy who attacked that service with more that 100000 automated random queries using a very poorly coded script which didn't even realize that the service was permanently closed for him (404)...
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the level of spam mails to email addreses listed in whois databases may depend on the popularity of your web site i.e. how well linked it is, as it seems to me that there are bots around traversing thru the net following links and sending random queries to the whois databases to obtain the owner's addresses on every new site visited. There is a whois service on my site and about 1...2 new bots can be found every day trying to abuse this service. Since bots get blacklisted very quickly, not much harm is done. However, last week I had some stupid guy who attacked that service with more that 100000 automated random queries using a very poorly coded script which didn't even realize that the service was permanently closed for him (404) ...