Find your spammer's host registrar
Who is a registrar? The company given the privilege of registering domains. It is their obligation to make sure all their registration clients have provided factual and valid information in the WhoIS. Those registrars who allow fraudulent WhoIS data risk losing their license to register domains. Once you find a falsified or fraudulent record it's time to complain and stir up trouble to get that domain closed.
If by some chance the spammer has, in fact, registered accurate WhoIS info, then you can proceed to litigation in your state. As of January 1, 2004, the Can Spam law makes it a Felony to falsify headers in email. Report them to your local Attorney General's office. The sad part of this is off-shore Registrars have set up for the specific purpose of generating domains for spamming. These will be difficult to stop.
As of January 20, 2004, these are the official Registrars as listed by InterNIC. The domain link takes you to the actual Registrar (Beware of spam and stalkers), but the "WhoIS" link takes you to the InterNIC description.
Instructions for International Registrars:
- Look for "a href" in your spam
- Copy the root domain. ie: "spammer.com"
- Go to: GeekTools, and paste the domain into the field after complying with the security check. (They'll ask you to match a number from a graphic to proof you are not a spam robot.)
- Within the resulting search you'll find the name of the Registrar
- Return to this page and use your browser's FIND command, and paste in the Registrar's name. It should turn up. If it doesn't, try the registrar's domain.
- Click the "WhoIS" link and you'll see the bio/profile for that Registrar.
- Address your complaints to that Registrar. If any of the data turns up false, or the Registrar gives you a hard time, then you can file a formal complaint to InterNIC and ICANN via their online complaint form.
- This information is public knowledge from InterNIC
- Here's a list of Registrars outside the U.S.A.
United States
- 007Names, Inc. www.007names.com ; NIC: desc.
- #1 Accredited Registrar www.1accredited.com ; NIC: desc.
- #1 Domain Names International, Inc. dba 1dni.com www.1dni.com ; NIC: desc.
- 123 Easy Domain Names, Inc. dba Signature Domains www.signaturedomains.com ; NIC: desc.
- 123 Registration, Inc. www.123registration.com ; NIC: desc.
- 1eNameCo www.eNameCo.com ; NIC: desc.
- 1stDomain.Net, a division of G+D International LLC www.1stdomain.net ; NIC: desc.
- !$6.25 DOMAINS! Network, Inc. dba Esite Accred Domain Reg and Ecom Solutions, Inc. www.esite.com ; NIC: desc.
- AAAQ.COM, Inc. www.aaaq.com ; NIC: desc.
- Abacus America, Inc. d/b/a Names4ever www.names4ever.com ; NIC: desc.
- ABR Products Inc. dba Nitin Networks www.registersite.com ; NIC: desc.
- Address Creation www.addresscreation.com ; NIC: desc.
- Adgrafix Corporation www.adgrafix.com ; NIC: desc.
- Alice's Registry, Inc. www.ar.com ; NIC: desc.
- All West Communications, Inc. DBA AWRegistry www.awregistry.com ; NIC: desc.
- Alldomains.com www.alldomains.com ; NIC: desc.
- ! AlohaNIC LLC www.alohanic.com ; NIC: desc.
- Amazon Registrar, Inc. registrar.amazon.com ; NIC: desc.
- America Online, Inc. www.aol.com ; NIC: desc.
- Annulet Incorporated www.annulet.com ; NIC: desc.
- Best Registration Services, Inc. dba BestRegistrar.com www.BestRegistrar.com ; NIC: desc.
- ! $ ! Bid It Win It, Inc. www.biditwinit.com ; NIC: desc.
- Blue Razor Domains, Inc. www.bluerazor.com ; NIC: desc.
- Blueberry Hill Communications, Inc. d/b/a 4Domains.com www.4domains.com ; NIC: desc.
- BulkRegister.com www.bulkregister.com ; NIC: desc.
- C I Host, Inc. www.cihost.com ; NIC: desc.
- CAT, Inc. dba Namezero.com www.namezero.com ; NIC: desc.
- Catalog.com www.catalog.com ; NIC: desc.
- Centergate Research Group, LLC www.centergate.com ; NIC: desc.
- Central Registrar, Inc. d/b/a DomainMonger.com domainmonger.com ; NIC: desc.
- @com Technology, LLC www.AtComTechnology.com ; NIC: desc.
- Corporate Domains, Inc. www.corporatedomains.com ; NIC: desc.
- Dodora Unified Communications, Inc. www.dodora.net ; NIC: desc.
- Domain Bank, Inc. www.domainbank.com ; NIC: desc.
- Domain Monkeys, LLC www.domainmonkeys.com ; NIC: desc.
- Domain Registration Services, Inc. dba dotEarth.com www.dotEarth.com ; NIC: desc.
- Domain-It!, Inc. dba Domain-It! www.domainit.com ; NIC: desc.
- Domainducks, Inc. dba Personalnames.com www.personalnames.com ; NIC: desc.
- DomainName, Inc. DomainName.com ; NIC: desc.
- DomainPro, Inc. a.k.a. Domain.com www.domain.com ; NIC: desc.
- DomainProcessor.com, a division of Funpeas Media Ventures, LLC www.DomainProcessor.com ; NIC: desc.
- DomainRegistry.com Inc. www.DomainRegistry.com ; NIC: desc.
- DomainZoo.com, Inc. www.domainzoo.com ; NIC: desc.
- Dotster, Inc. www.dotster.com ; NIC: desc.
- eMarkmonitor Inc. dba Markmonitor www.markmonitor.com ; NIC: desc.
- EnCirca, Inc. www.encirca.biz ; NIC: desc.
- EnetRegistry, Inc. www.enetregistry.net ; NIC: desc.
- eNom, Inc. www.enom.com ; NIC: desc.
- GKG.NET, INC. www.gkg.net ; NIC: desc.
- GlobalHosting, Inc. d/b/a SiteRegister www.siteregister.com ; NIC: desc.
- Go Daddy Software, Inc. www.godaddy.com ; NIC: desc.
- Hosting-Network, Inc. www.hosting-network.com ; NIC: desc.
- iHoldings.com, Inc. d/b/a DotRegistrar.com www.DotRegistrar.com ; NIC: desc.
- IKANO Communications, Inc. www.ikano.com ; NIC: desc.
- iNamePro dba DynaDot www.dynadot.com ; NIC: desc.
- InnerWise,Inc. d/b/a ItsYourDomain.com www.itsyourdomain.com ; NIC: desc.
- InterAccess Co. www.interaccess.com ; NIC: desc.
- Interactive Telecom Network, Inc. www.itninc.net ; NIC: desc.
- Intercosmos Media Group, Inc. www.directnic.com ; NIC: desc.
- Moniker Online Services LLC www.moniker.com ; NIC: desc.
- Name 2 Host, Inc. dba name2host.com www.name2host.com ; NIC: desc.
- Name.com LLC www.name.com ; NIC: desc.
- Name Intelligence, Inc. www.nameintelligence.com ; NIC: desc.
- NameEngine, Inc. www.nameengine.com ; NIC: desc.
- NameKing.com Inc. www.nameking.com ; NIC: desc.
- Namesdirect.com, Inc. www.namesdirect.com ; NIC: desc.
- Namesecure.com, Inc. www.namesecure.com ; NIC: desc.
- Network Solutions, Inc. Registrar www.networksolutions.com/en_US/ ; NIC: desc.
- New Dream Network, LLC dba Domainitron.com www.domainitron.com ; NIC: desc.
- Omnis Network, LLC www.omnis.com ; NIC: desc.
- OnlineNIC, Inc. (United States) www.onlinenic.com ; NIC: desc.
- pair Networks, Inc.d/b/a pairNIC www.pair.com ; NIC: desc.
- Parava Networks, Inc. d/b/a RegistrateYa.com and nAAme.com www.parava.net ; NIC: desc.
- R & K Global Business Services d/b/a/ 000Domains.com www.000domains.com ; NIC: desc.
- R. Lee Chambers Company LLC d/b/a DomainsToBeSeen.com www.domains2beseen.com ; NIC: desc.
- Register.com, Inc. www.register.com ; NIC: desc.
- Registration Technologies, Inc. www.RegistrationTek.com ; NIC: desc.
- Spot Domain LLC dba Domainsite.com and Name.com name.com ; NIC: desc.
- Stargate.com, Inc. www.stargateinc.com ; NIC: desc.
- The NameIT Corporation d/b/a NameServices.net www.aitdomains.com ; NIC: desc.
- The Registry at Info Avenue d/b/a IA Registry www.IARegistry.com ; NIC: desc.
- TierraNet Inc. d/b/a DomainDiscover www.domaindiscover.com ; NIC: desc.
- TLDs Inc. d/b/a SRSplus www.srsplus.com ; NIC: desc.
- Universal Registration Services, Inc. dba NewDentity.com www.newdentity.com ; NIC: desc.
- USA Webhost www.usawebhost.com ; NIC: desc.
- Vivid Domains, Inc. www.vividdomains.com ; NIC: desc.
- Wild West Domains, Inc. www.wildwestdomains.com ; NIC: desc.
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