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It'll be through the whois information for the domain. Most registrars have whois privacy as an optional extra for a few quid, well worth signing up for imo.
Whack the domain name into http://www.tcpiputils.com/ and see what it shows, it probably has your full home address (or whatever you used during signup) listed as well.
Its also worth to make sure that you don't have a catch-all email address listed, as this will ensure that anything@yourdomain.com is routed to whatever email address you specify, it just depends on what address the spam is being sent to, but going by your OP - I'd say it's down to the domain whois info.
Whack the domain name into http://www.tcpiputils.com/ and see what it shows, it probably has your full home address (or whatever you used during signup) listed as well.
Its also worth to make sure that you don't have a catch-all email address listed, as this will ensure that anything@yourdomain.com is routed to whatever email address you specify, it just depends on what address the spam is being sent to, but going by your OP - I'd say it's down to the domain whois info.
Mr Happy said:
It'll be through the whois information for the domain. Most registrars have whois privacy as an optional extra for a few quid, well worth signing up for imo.
Whack the domain name into http://www.tcpiputils.com/ and see what it shows, it probably has your full home address (or whatever you used during signup) listed as well.
Its also worth to make sure that you don't have a catch-all email address listed, as this will ensure that anything@yourdomain.com is routed to whatever email address you specify, it just depends on what address the spam is being sent to, but going by your OP - I'd say it's down to the domain whois info.
Cheers, taking steps to rectify some of it now....!Whack the domain name into http://www.tcpiputils.com/ and see what it shows, it probably has your full home address (or whatever you used during signup) listed as well.
Its also worth to make sure that you don't have a catch-all email address listed, as this will ensure that anything@yourdomain.com is routed to whatever email address you specify, it just depends on what address the spam is being sent to, but going by your OP - I'd say it's down to the domain whois info.
FurtiveFreddy said:
Zoon said:
Why not buy a domain from 123reg, no such problems and cheaper.
I think it's too late for that now...
I've got a special phone number for things like domain registrations.
It's 01234 56789
t! So, changed e-mail, found the marketing mail and call turn-off buttons and changed my phone number...It seems to be quite a new thing for these sharks to pounce on any new domains with TLDs in the .com, .biz etc space.
Doesn't seem to matter which registrar you use (123reg etc) as the details go into the global whois and I've had the problem with a recent .com registered via TSOhost. Seems to be becoming so much of a problem now that the registrars are offering services to "protect" against it:
https://www.tsohost.com/domain-names/whois-privacy
Doesn't seem to matter which registrar you use (123reg etc) as the details go into the global whois and I've had the problem with a recent .com registered via TSOhost. Seems to be becoming so much of a problem now that the registrars are offering services to "protect" against it:
https://www.tsohost.com/domain-names/whois-privacy
Edited by eltawater on Friday 23 June 11:28
FurtiveFreddy said:
I think it's too late for that now...
I've got a special phone number for things like domain registrations.
It's 01234 56789
The prefix is valid for phone numbers in Bedford and likely to result in a cheesed off resident or business answering....
eltawater said:
OT but I've had to have a quiet word with developers in the past who blindly use that dialling code prefix for test phone numbers and set different variations e.g. 01234 718 718.
The prefix is valid for phone numbers in Bedford and likely to result in a cheesed off resident or business answering....
In fact, it needs to be 01234 567890 to have the correct number of digits for the UK and i just dialled it and a very pissed off old lady answered and said something like "Oh, no not another one!!!"The prefix is valid for phone numbers in Bedford and likely to result in a cheesed off resident or business answering....
not really, it comes up unobtainable
eltawater said:
It seems to be quite a new thing for these sharks to pounce on any new domains with TLDs in the .com, .biz etc space.
Doesn't seem to matter which registrar you use (123reg etc) as the details go into the global whois and I've had the problem with a recent .com registered via TSOhost. Seems to be becoming so much of a problem now that the registrars are offering services to "protect" against it:
https://www.tsohost.com/domain-names/whois-privacy
Something has defiantly changed. I've probably averaged two new domains every year for the last 10 years. Never had a problem.Doesn't seem to matter which registrar you use (123reg etc) as the details go into the global whois and I've had the problem with a recent .com registered via TSOhost. Seems to be becoming so much of a problem now that the registrars are offering services to "protect" against it:
https://www.tsohost.com/domain-names/whois-privacy
Edited by eltawater on Friday 23 June 11:28
Two months ago I registered a new domain and am now getting 2 calls a day to the landline (our phone logs missed calls but volume is at zero and we never answer it). My email spam has increased on that account from about 3 per day, to over 50. I've even received a letter in the post offering web design services.
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