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Do You Report Spammers to GoDaddy?

by Dan C. Rinnert
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I've been very tempted to report some spammers today, but I don't like the idea of GoDaddy shutting down websites and domain names because of spam accusations, so I have thus far resisted the temptation.

Just curious as to whether anyone else reports them or not?

I've gotten three different messages from one spammer today, all promoting the same website. When I looked up the website in WHOIS, the domain name was registered through GoDaddy.

Another spammer has sent me maybe two dozen eMails just today, all promoting the same website. The domain name is a private registration but registered through GoDaddy. A similar spam came through a couple weeks ago, promoting a similar but different website, but the same exact content otherwise. I must have received nearly 100 of those spam messages in a single day to a single account!

With the latter, it looks like they probably setup a site and run whatever "business" or scam or whatever it is they are doing, and then just change the URL when they get shut down.

Very annoying, especially receiving multiple messages per day. I mean, a few dozen of the same message in a single day is pushing limits even for spammers.

But, I haven't reported them. For one thing, you cannot know whether the spammer is really the site owner. In the second case, I think it probably is, but, in the first example, I'm not so sure. It could be someone trying to get a competitor, or someone they don't like, shut down. And, I don't want to be a part of that by reporting the messages as spam to GoDaddy.

Make that four messages from the first "spammer."

What do you do?
#godaddy #report #spammers
  • Profile picture of the author Michael Motley
    godaddy wont do anything unless they are hosting the site.. you need to go to their host. The host is the one that will have the power to shut the site down
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    • Profile picture of the author Jesus Perez
      Yes they will. They will suspend domain names that are spamming regardless of where the hosting is located.

      They will suspend the domain name and request the owner pay a large "fee" to get it back. I recall it being $500 or so.

      Originally Posted by Michael Motley View Post

      godaddy wont do anything unless they are hosting the site.. you need to go to their host. The host is the one that will have the power to shut the site down
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  • Profile picture of the author OnlineMarketingSys
    I have also heard of Godaddy charging large fee's for frozen accounts. I am somewhat doubtful they would close down a site for spamming, and generally spammers have multiple sites that they direct traffic to. So if Godaddy did attempt to charge them a $500 fee the would likely not care and just move on.
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  • Profile picture of the author davezan
    Originally Posted by Dan C. Rinnert View Post

    What do you do?
    Do whatever you think is important. But using domain names to spam violates
    Go Daddy's contract, and they do want people to report especially no-brainer
    cases to them.

    Of course, you could try "notifying" the site owner about it. If they're legit, to
    begin with.
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  • Profile picture of the author redfc
    Hi Dan,

    1) if those mails is coming from an auto responder, you can report it to the respective provider. Most major auto responder will take action to suspend the account. you can scroll down to the bottom of your mails to check if there is unsubscribe link and you can see which auto responder the spammer is using.

    2) you can contact the website owner, look for contact publish on their site. (My own experience, I contacted the owner and warn them to remove my mail otherwise I'll report them to authority and get their site banned. In the end the spamming stopped).

    3) Some of these site owner are naive. They had been con by someone saying I had lists of mails addr interested in your type of business, which they brought and start sending. The site owner could also end up believing they're buying genuine targeted traffic from some expert not knowing they are spammer.

    cheers

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  • Profile picture of the author Stephen Root
    Funny thing is that everybody has a different definition for a spammer. Some don't appreciate daily emails even they opted in and some don't appreciate advertising only emails even they opted in.

    In my books if you opted in, owner of the list has all right to email you whatever he or she wants. If you don't like it, you unsubscribe. If you get actual spam, then you can report them.
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  • Profile picture of the author Harry Behrens
    No offense but I think you're spending too much time/energy on this... a spammer isn't worth your time like that. Set up a filter in your email program so that any mail with that URL in the body or subject line does straight to spam and go on with your life, business etc.

    Even if you do manage to take that particular website down, they can still put up another one in 10 minutes flat, if they don't have hundreds of them up already.
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    • Profile picture of the author OnlineMarketingSys
      Originally Posted by hmbehrens View Post

      No offense but I think you're spending too much time/energy on this... a spammer isn't worth your time like that. Set up a filter in your email program so that any mail with that URL in the body or subject line does straight to spam and go on with your life, business etc.

      Even if you do manage to take that particular website down, they can still put up another one in 10 minutes flat, if they don't have hundreds of them up already.
      I also would have to agree. Personally take the 5minutes to send off an email to Godaddy and see if any action is taken (website taken down,ect). I think what you will see is generally companies overlook many of these complaints and you find yourself just waisting a lot of time getting no results. I have reported spammers in the past several years ago, and what I found was "99% of the companies had policies where they wouldn't give you the outcome" and I rarely saw any action being taken that was visible.
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      • Profile picture of the author Kay King
        I don't waste my time doing that. I use my email program to block further emails from them and label their email as spam in my own system so I don't see any more junk from them.

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  • Profile picture of the author Sleaklight
    I opted in to a newsletter and then I wanted out so I clicked the opt out link and it ended up on a "coming soon!" paahe which redirected me to another website through an affiliate link redirect. I replied to the newsletter and low and behold it came back as undeliverable. I think looked up the domain and contacted the owner through the email listed there, I got no reply for a week. I tried the calling the phone, no answer. I left it alone for a few days and kept getting emails and couldn't opt out due to the "coming soon!" page on the opt out link. I ended up reporting the website to the registrar after trying in good faith to opt out and contact the owner about it. The emails have stopped While I did opt in to receive them, I should have been able to opt out just as well but nope, the emailer made it impossible to opt out. I think that is bad ethics and feel I dealt with it properly.
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