mike@lizardranch.com Posted May 4, 2005 Share Posted May 4, 2005 I run several wwwboard BBS web based bulletin boards and visit many more. There are spam bots about that post advertisements on these boards, many of them on questionable topics (gay sex, viagra, pirated software). I have visited the websites for these posts (secretly via alternate logins) and checked via WHOIS and find out that many of the worst of these sites (www.forcedgaysex.com is one of them, www.hondavtxparts.com another) are legitimate registered domain names with contact names. My question is, can we report these domain names somehow? Should we report the email addresses of the administrators (found via whois)? Can I somehow get the Nameserver or ICANN to revoke the domain name for this kind of robot spamming? I use anonymous BBS like wwwboard to encourage the usage of the bulletin board, but find the attacks by these spam bots is discouraging as an administrator. What can I do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turetzsr Posted May 4, 2005 Share Posted May 4, 2005 Hi, Mike! lizardranch.com,May 4 2005, 05:55 PM]I run several wwwboard BBS web based bulletin boards and visit many more. There are spam bots about that post advertisements on these boards, many of them on questionable topics (gay sex, viagra, pirated software). <snip> My question is, can we report these domain names somehow? Should we report the email addresses of the administrators (found via whois)? <snip> 27633[/snapback] ...Some of what you are looking up yourself, and the answer to your implied questions (at least as to how SpamCop can help you and whether you can use SpamCop to do the reporting, IIUC) may be found at Jeff G's entry "Manual Report" in thread "SpamCop Glossary, FAQ Item". ...Good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff G. Posted May 4, 2005 Share Posted May 4, 2005 This IPB software allows Admins and Moderators to see the IP Addresses of posters, so at least we can report them when they commit serious infractions, like breaking their own ISPs' TOSs or AUPs. Doesn't wwwboard let you do that? Alternatively, can you use your firewall connection logs with the date/time stamps on the posts to finger the perpetrators? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shmengie Posted May 5, 2005 Share Posted May 5, 2005 I would report the website to the ISP whom hosts the website. Don't expect much action taken, but you might at least help the spammer move to the their next ISP victem. The vampire effect is the another course of action, but that's not necissairly a good idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike@lizardranch.com Posted May 5, 2005 Author Share Posted May 5, 2005 Thanks people. I went and looked up the domain name registrar and the ISP on some of these offenders and reported it to them. I was just hoping that there was some automated reporting system for this. As I said, I reported the offending domain name to the registrar that it was registered to but most of these registrars and the Name Service provider that they support/feed are huge bulk operations and not really interested in the job of police. Is there some official organization (ICANN?) that you can complain to that would revoke a domain name ? In almost every case that I have had there has been a real domain name involved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff G. Posted May 5, 2005 Share Posted May 5, 2005 You can lodge a complaint about domain whois data at http://reports.internic.net/cgi/rpt_whois/rpt.cgi and about a registrar that doesn't deal well with complaints at http://reports.internic.net/cgi/registrars...blem-report.cgi or registrar-info <at> icann.org. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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