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Old 04-22-2007, 02:55 AM THREAD STARTER               #1 (permalink)
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There was an ordeal where I lost my domain due to the reseller's site having a different date of expiration than the whois database. A spammer got the domain, and I patiently waited it out and own the domain again. I haven't had a problem for a year or two, but now I keep getting bounced back emails from antispam scripts.

Is there anything I can do about this? I'm sure it's getting my domain blocked all over the place.
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Use SPF records. Also don't use a catch-all email. Add spam filters. Also on bounced emails just delete on the server.
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Other than filtering, not much. Even if you have always had the domain you may get the same thing if they spoof your address. I once had one of my domains spoofed and got 14,000 bounce messages per day. After two days, my provider forced me to take the domain offline for two weeks because just the traffic at the mailserver slowed mail to everyone else on the shared server. Even "black holing" the mail still used server resources.

Be patient, wait it out.
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I'm not worried so much about the spam I'm getting myself, but that they're using my domain as theirs and getting it blocked, so I can probably never use that domain for legitimate purposes
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Originally Posted by h0dg3s
I'm not worried so much about the spam I'm getting myself, but that they're using my domain as theirs and getting it blocked, so I can probably never use that domain for legitimate purposes
You very well could get your domain blacklisted as a source of spam. However, if you can prove that it was spoofed and not the real source, you can probably get it removed from any blacklist. If it WAS in the hands of a spammer for real spam, you might prove by whois records that you as new owner haven't done it.
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