Re: [ga] Legitimate Hi-Jacking

["L. Gallegos" <jandl@jandl.com>]

On Wednesday 04 September 2002 08:13 pm, Marc Schneiders wrote:

>
> That might be an interesting tool to get your competitor's web and mail
> down for a day or so. I can well imagine that companies who have paid the
> registration for 5 or 10 years in advance might not deal fast enough (esp.
> when they are big and bureaucratic) with emails send to email addresses
> like: hostmaster@, dns-admin@. Two weeks is not much. Also addresses in
> whois get a lot of spam. I delete most of that on the basis of the
> subject. Things like "Warning about your domain name", "Urgent: Your reply
> needed within 24 hours" are likely candidates here. Maybe there should be
> a secret (i.e. not available in whois)  address on which we receive
> messages from our registrar about expiration, whois problems and the like?
> That I would find helpfull.

That would be helpful.  My spam filters would kill the mail with subject lines 
you describe.  I'd never see it.  For mail from my registrar I do look at the 
"from" since all administrative mail is easily detected that - at least from 
my registrar.  However, I have found some spoofed "from" entries showing that 
registrar as well, so am becoming more jaded by the day.  Having a "private" 
or "secret" address for administrative business with the registrar is a good 
idea, IMO.

Leah


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