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[registrars] Who "affordable-domains.com" is.

  • To: registrars@dnso.org
  • Subject: [registrars] Who "affordable-domains.com" is.
  • From: John Nagle <nagle@animats.com>
  • Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 22:19:14 -0700
  • Organization: Animats
  • Sender: owner-registrars@dnso.org
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    As is well known, they spam, massively.  The usual
searches don't work; their "whois" data is phony and
a traceroute leads to China.  But if you look at their
forms, they route to 66.175.45.95, which is "easy-internic.com".
And the "affordable-domains.com" FAQ refers to
"easy-internic.com" as their "mother site".

    "easy-internic.com", operates out
of Mail Boxes Etc. #3033 in Salt Lake City.  So
there's a place to start with court orders.

    "easy-internic.com" is hosted by "abac.net"
in San Diego, CA.  So there's a California connection,
and California anti-spam law applies.  Also, because
the site is in California, the California criminal
law which prohibits accepting a credit card number
before disclosing the business name and address
of the business applies.  Further, "easy internic"
isn't listed as a corporation with the California
Secretary of State.  I'll make some calls on Monday
and see what can be done about this.

    They also seem to be a reseller for OpenSRS, which
is a Verisign unit now.

				John Nagle



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