msealey Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 Although I've had promises to take action from namecheaphosting.com, their filth continues to pour in. http://www.namecheaphosting.com doesn't seem to resolve, though. Anyone know who they are and how they can be stopped, please? TIA! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lking Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 msealey, I edited your post so that the link does not work and their fore aid SEO for this website. As you, I'm sure, understand this anti-spam forum would not want to provide a link to a hosting service that does not take their responsabilities to heart. When I checked the domain did resolve. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msealey Posted October 20, 2014 Author Share Posted October 20, 2014 Lou, Thanks for editing my post… of course :-) In Safari 7 on 10.9.5 and the usual DNS etc tools on a LAN attempts to return info or display a page all just time out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lking Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 Domain Name: NAMECHEAPHOSTING.COM Registry Domain ID: 1015789512_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.enom.com Registrar URL: www.enom.com Updated Date: 2014-05-09 02:33:23Z Creation Date: 2007-06-07 11:59:42Z Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2015-06-07 11:59:00Z Registrar: ENOM, INC. Registrar IANA ID: 48 Registrar Abuse Contact Email: abuse[at]enom.com Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.4252982646 Reseller: NAMECHEAP, INC Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited Registry Registrant ID: Registrant Name: NAMECHEAP.COM NAMECHEAP.COM Registrant Organization: NAMECHEAP, INC Registrant Street: 11400 W. OLYMPIC BLVD. SUITE 200 Registrant City: LOS ANGELES Registrant State/Province: CA Registrant Postal Code: 90064 Registrant Country: US Registrant Phone: +1.6613102107 Registrant Phone Ext: Registrant Fax: +1.6613102107 Registrant Fax Ext: Registrant Email: SUPPORT[at]NAMECHEAP.COM Registry Admin ID: Admin Name: NAMECHEAP.COM NAMECHEAP.COM Admin Organization: NAMECHEAP, INC Admin Street: 11400 W. OLYMPIC BLVD. SUITE 200 Admin City: LOS ANGELES Admin State/Province: CA Admin Postal Code: 90064 Admin Country: US Admin Phone: +1.6613102107 Admin Phone Ext: Admin Fax: +1.6613102107 Admin Fax Ext: Admin Email: SUPPORT[at]NAMECHEAP.COM Registry Tech ID: Tech Name: NAMECHEAP.COM NAMECHEAP.COM Tech Organization: NAMECHEAP, INC Tech Street: 11400 W. OLYMPIC BLVD. SUITE 200 Tech City: LOS ANGELES Tech State/Province: CA Tech Postal Code: 90064 Tech Country: US Tech Phone: +1.6613102107 Tech Phone Ext: Tech Fax: +1.6613102107 Tech Fax Ext: Tech Email: SUPPORT[at]NAMECHEAP.COM Name Server: NS1.WEB-HOSTING.COM Name Server: NS2.WEB-HOSTING.COM DNSSEC: unSigned URL of the ICANN WHOIS Data Problem Reporting System: http://wdprs.internic.net/ Last update of WHOIS database: 2014-05-09 02:33:23Z Above is what I get when I do a whois on the doamin. May be is issue of DNS tables not being updated. try doing a Google on the domain name. the google links work for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidT Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 I'm a customer of NameCheap and found them to be both responsive and responsible. I'll need to see some very convincing evidence to think otherwise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farelf Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 ... In Safari 7 on 10.9.5 and the usual DNS etc tools on a LAN attempts to return info or display a page all just time out. Could be problem with the nameservers you are using (ISP defaults go temporarily wonky from time to time) or it could be local cache issue. Good idea to find an authoritative nameserver to verify DNS, start with a public one to do that. C:\Documents and Settings\Admin>nslookup -type=ns namecheaphosting.com 8.8.8.8Server: google-public-dns-a.google.com Address: 8.8.8.8 Non-authoritative answer: namecheaphosting.com nameserver = ns2.web-hosting.com namecheaphosting.com nameserver = ns1.web-hosting.com C:\Documents and Settings\Admin>nslookup namecheaphosting.com ns1.web-hosting.com Server: ns1.web-hosting.com Address: 199.188.205.135 Name: namecheaphosting.com Address: 74.81.85.95 C:\Documents and Settings\Admin>nslookup -type=ptr 74.81.85.95 ns1.web-hosting.com Server: ns1.web-hosting.com Address: 199.188.205.135 95.85.81.74.in-addr.arpa name = vps3.namecheaphosting.com 85.81.74.in-addr.arpa nameserver = nn101.namecheaphosting.com 85.81.74.in-addr.arpa nameserver = nn1.namecheaphosting.com nn1.namecheaphosting.com internet address = 199.188.205.135 nn101.namecheaphosting.com internet address = 205.251.128.234 Or use http://centralops.net/co/DomainDossier.aspx - tick all the query boxes for a comprehensive report, including abuse addresses etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msealey Posted October 21, 2014 Author Share Posted October 21, 2014 Thank you Lou and Farelf; I'll use that info which you've kindly provided. Anyone else suffering from an onslaught from them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msealey Posted October 21, 2014 Author Share Posted October 21, 2014 David, > I'm a customer of NameCheap and found them to be both responsive and responsible. I'll need to see some very convincing evidence to think otherwise. Regrettably, see http://www.spamcop.net/mcgi?action=showhistory;slice=issueid;val=557107224 That's about 10% of it :-( Sorry… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knightshade Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 David, > I'm a customer of NameCheap and found them to be both responsive and responsible. I'll need to see some very convincing evidence to think otherwise. Regrettably, see http://www.spamcop.net/mcgi?action=showhistory;slice=issueid;val=557107224 That's about 10% of it :-( Sorry… Interesting... the 2 subdomain URLs in those spams are both hosted at a namecheap IP, but the domain itself is hosted at softlayer. The registrar for the domain also appears to be namecheap (acting as a reseller for enom), according to enom.com/whois/default.aspx - it may be worth making a spam complaint outside of spamcop to the abuse emails for both enom & namecheap, noting in it that namecheap is acting both as hoster & registrar (and also noting the sheer volume of spam you're receiving related to that domain!). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msealey Posted October 21, 2014 Author Share Posted October 21, 2014 Thanks, knightshade; I'm reluctant to supply any of these ******'s with an email address which they can use against me. Last week I did get (via SC, thank you!) three acknowledgements from namecheap that they were "looking into it". But the muck keeps on coming from them. namecheap's site looks so convincing: it's tempting to approach them 'person to person' (so to speak) and open a dialog. But I don't want to waste my time :-( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knightshade Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 Thanks, knightshade; I'm reluctant to supply any of these ******'s with an email address which they can use against me. Last week I did get (via SC, thank you!) three acknowledgements from namecheap that they were "looking into it". But the muck keeps on coming from them. namecheap's site looks so convincing: it's tempting to approach them 'person to person' (so to speak) and open a dialog. But I don't want to waste my time :-( If you've got a yahoo mail account, you can set up 'disposable' email addresses that can be handy for such situations - I've used one of these to make complaints directly to namecheap/enom & (so far) it's never been targeted for any additional abuse. The moment it does ever get targeted, I can blow it away & move on to a fresh disposable address, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msealey Posted October 21, 2014 Author Share Posted October 21, 2014 knightshade, Thanks. But how do you advise them of the (actually your) address that they're abusing without telling them what it is? (If you see what I mean.) Of course they do already have the address they're spamming because… they're spamming you/me. If I thought name cheap were reputable, I'd call them and tell them to stop it. But I just don't trust them. have today filed BBB and District Attorney complaints. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knightshade Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 knightshade, Thanks. But how do you advise them of the (actually your) address that they're abusing without telling them what it is? (If you see what I mean.) Of course they do already have the address they're spamming because… they're spamming you/me. If I thought name cheap were reputable, I'd call them and tell them to stop it. But I just don't trust them. have today filed BBB and District Attorney complaints. I understand your point - there's plenty of places I won't submit direct complaints to because they appear too dodgy - that's where spamcop fits in - however, IMHO and going by my own experiences, namecheap doesn't fit in that category. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msealey Posted October 21, 2014 Author Share Posted October 21, 2014 knightshade, Thanks for your help: when you say that namecheap doesn't fit in that category, do you mean that in your experience, they're reputable? I'm having to report dozens of emails from namecheap (via SC) daily. Am utterly sick of them. Have tried blocking all last octets of IP addresses from which their trash seems to originate. But they immediately find another one. I'd dearly like to see them go under for good - and fast… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lking Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 Seems the correct phrase may be "Mileage may vary." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knightshade Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 knightshade, Thanks for your help: when you say that namecheap doesn't fit in that category, do you mean that in your experience, they're reputable? Whilst I have had my issues with them, yeah, I'd have to say that I've found them to be reputable. BTW, check your PMs - I sent you a couple of possible things to try, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidT Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 David, > I'm a customer of NameCheap and found them to be both responsive and responsible. I'll need to see some very convincing evidence to think otherwise. Regrettably, see http://www.spamcop.net/mcgi?action=showhistory;slice=issueid;val=557107224 The spamvertized URLs in those reports don't resolve to working websites. Perhaps action has been taken? Also, the primary purpose of SC is in dealing with the sources of email spam, not with spamvertized URLs. Looks like a lot of bogus info on the whois for reliefrecoverstrenght.link, which is something you can also use to have action taken. DT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msealey Posted October 22, 2014 Author Share Posted October 22, 2014 knightshade, Thanks so much; have replied to your PMs :-) Appreciated… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msealey Posted October 22, 2014 Author Share Posted October 22, 2014 Thanks, David. Per knightshade's suggestion, am following up with uniregistry too… I appreciate what you say about SC's mission being a more direct one. At the same time SC is revealing a whole variety of actual spammers, taking advantage of namecheap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msealey Posted October 23, 2014 Author Share Posted October 23, 2014 For some reason they stopped completely all day on 2014-10-22. But are back with a vengeance today :-( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astroguard Posted November 6, 2014 Share Posted November 6, 2014 Over the past month, I've been receiving a flood of spam from throwaway domains registered by Namecheap, which appears to be a reseller for eNom, a notorious spamhost — just do a search on "enom spam" to see for yourself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schmide Posted November 6, 2014 Share Posted November 6, 2014 The sadist thing is these snow shoe spammers seem to have figured out the anti-spam formula. They never get listed as they just hop IPs keeping mags under the threshold. I personally think they're using reports as a sampling function to predict such listings. Something needs to change. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lking Posted November 6, 2014 Share Posted November 6, 2014 check what knujon.com is trying to do about this issue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msealey Posted November 6, 2014 Author Share Posted November 6, 2014 It looks as though namecheap's upstream is blacklotus, whose customers had been spamming me for a solid month before they suddenly stopped. Now namecheap has taken over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan27 Posted November 14, 2014 Share Posted November 14, 2014 TIme goes by, but they did not stop. A few days that 2/3 of my spams comes from them. One of the most used domain name is now numbered linuxhost13122. They still have lot of numbers to continue the series, and they doesn't seem to want to stop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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