<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">The registry is Radix<div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The registrar is GoDaddy</div></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">My command line whois outputs more info than what is below ( the registry info for example ) , but the Registrar info is the same.</div><div><br></div><div>Domains By Proxy is also GoDaddy, well, owned by the same guy that founded it anyway, they’re connected. It is almost certain that this domain name was purchased from them.</div><div><br></div><div>To know where a spam email originated from though, you would have to parse the email headers, which would list the IP address of every mail server it went through. Reporting those IP’s is generally more effective at stopping spam than reporting domain names.</div><div><br></div><div>There are likely automated ways of doing that, but I am not familiar with them. I do know that mail server reputation is something that mail providers / businesses care about ( to some extent anyway, and some more than others ), because they get shut off if it gets too low. ( other people won’t take their mail ).</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> - Bryan</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Mar 8, 2023, at 2:06 PM, Bruce Labitt <bruce.labitt@myfairpoint.net> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div>
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interpret the output. This is one of the outputs of whois</div>
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monospace">$ whois aagyemang.store<br>
Domain Name: AAGYEMANG.STORE<br>
Registry Domain ID: D345146502-CNIC<br>
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.godaddy.com<br>
Registrar URL: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.godaddy.com/">https://www.godaddy.com/</a><br>
Updated Date: 2023-02-23T09:25:07.0Z<br>
Creation Date: 2023-01-23T21:28:02.0Z<br>
Registry Expiry Date: 2024-01-23T23:59:59.0Z<br>
Registrar: Go Daddy, LLC<br>
Registrar IANA ID: 146<br>
Domain Status: serverTransferProhibited
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://icann.org/epp#serverTransferProhibited">https://icann.org/epp#serverTransferProhibited</a><br>
Domain Status: clientRenewProhibited
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://icann.org/epp#clientRenewProhibited">https://icann.org/epp#clientRenewProhibited</a><br>
Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited">https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited</a><br>
Domain Status: clientUpdateProhibited
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://icann.org/epp#clientUpdateProhibited">https://icann.org/epp#clientUpdateProhibited</a><br>
Domain Status: clientDeleteProhibited
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://icann.org/epp#clientDeleteProhibited">https://icann.org/epp#clientDeleteProhibited</a><br>
Registrant Organization: Domains By Proxy, LLC<br>
Registrant State/Province: Arizona<br>
Registrant Country: US<br>
Registrant Email: Please query the RDDS service of the Registrar
of Record identified in this output for information on how to
contact the Registrant, Admin, or Tech contact of the queried
domain name.<br>
Admin Email: Please query the RDDS service of the Registrar of
Record identified in this output for information on how to
contact the Registrant, Admin, or Tech contact of the queried
domain name.<br>
Tech Email: Please query the RDDS service of the Registrar of
Record identified in this output for information on how to
contact the Registrant, Admin, or Tech contact of the queried
domain name.<br>
Name Server: NS37.DOMAINCONTROL.COM<br>
Name Server: NS38.DOMAINCONTROL.COM<br>
DNSSEC: unsigned<br>
Billing Email: Please query the RDDS service of the Registrar of
Record identified in this output for information on how to
contact the Registrant, Admin, or Tech contact of the queried
domain name.<br>
Registrar Abuse Contact Email: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:abuse@godaddy.com">abuse@godaddy.com</a><br>
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.4805058800<br>
URL of the ICANN Whois Inaccuracy Complaint Form:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.icann.org/wicf/">https://www.icann.org/wicf/</a><br>
>>> Last update of WHOIS database:
2023-03-08T18:40:36.0Z <<<<br>
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For more information on Whois status codes, please visit
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://icann.org/epp">https://icann.org/epp</a><br>
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>>> IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT THE DEPLOYMENT OF RDAP:
please visit<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.centralnic.com/support/rdap">https://www.centralnic.com/support/rdap</a> <<<<br>
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The Whois and RDAP services are provided by CentralNic, and
contain<br>
information pertaining to Internet domain names registered by
our<br>
our customers. By using this service you are agreeing (1) not to
use any<br>
information presented here for any purpose other than
determining<br>
ownership of domain names, (2) not to store or reproduce this
data in<br>
any way, (3) not to use any high-volume, automated, electronic
processes<br>
to obtain data from this service. Abuse of this service is
monitored and<br>
actions in contravention of these terms will result in being
permanently<br>
blacklisted. All data is (c) CentralNic Ltd
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.centralnic.com/">https://www.centralnic.com</a>)<br>
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Access to the Whois and RDAP services is rate limited. For more<br>
information, visit
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://registrar-console.centralnic.com/pub/whois_guidance">https://registrar-console.centralnic.com/pub/whois_guidance</a>.</font><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Registrar is godaddy. I did contact
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:abuse@godaddy.com">abuse@godaddy.com</a>. Is there a more automated (scripted?) way of
getting this done? So it doesn't take so much of my time? It
feels like tilting at windmills, but, it would be good to fight
back a little. Domains by Proxy is the intermediary - a
corporation set up to "manage unsolicited contacts from third
parties and keeping the domains owners' personal information
secret". <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domains_by_Proxy">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domains_by_Proxy</a><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Is <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:abuse@godaddy.com">abuse@godaddy.com</a> the only
(legitimate) mechanism available to me?</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">What does the domain status above
mean? That the status is unavailable to me? Or something else?</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/8/23 1:36 PM, Bryan Borsa wrote:<br>
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The Registry and Registrar should still be visible regardless of
domain registrant privacy settings.
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<div>On Mar 8, 2023, at 1:31 PM, Bruce Labitt
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:bruce.labitt@myfairpoint.net"><bruce.labitt@myfairpoint.net></a> wrote:</div>
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<span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:
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normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width:
0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display:
inline !important;">I did a whois, and due to privacy
cr*p, there's no longer a way to get<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:
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<span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:
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font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400;
letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start;
text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space:
normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width:
0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display:
inline !important;">to the registrants. I can see why
this might be, but it does make it<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:
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<span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:
Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal;
font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400;
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text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space:
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0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display:
inline !important;">harder to report people</span></div>
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