A fellow named Mike Andrews used to offer to take over domains once used by, or likely to be used be, spam and malware. I had once grabbed an expired domain used by a spammer network, and I was glad to transfer it over to him rather than continue to pay the annual fee myself.
On Mon, Jul 18, 2022 at 10:29:06AM +0200, Tobias Fiebig via mailop wrote: > Heho, > ~a year ago I registered a (by then) unregistered look-alike domain for a > major European hoster, as I was receiving rather good spear-phishing from it, > and it was, well, unregistered. (The domain is hetzners.de ). > > I setup DMARC p=reject and SPF -all, and let it be. Now, the domain keeps > sitting around; Thing is, that dereg would most likely lead to more spam > falling out of the domain again (or it being actually registered by some > spammer), which is rather not so nice to the Internet as a whole. The hoster > is not interested in receiving it from me (free of charge etc.; Offered to > just send them the authcode). > > Now, what can I ethically do with the domain? I would kind of prefer it going > to some org. that actually makes an effort in drying out domains used like > this; Does somebody have a suggestion/contact whom to ask? > > With best regards, > Tobias -- Henry Yen Aegis Information Systems, Inc. Senior Systems Programmer Hicksville, New York _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
