AntiSpam Policy & Marketing Domains to End Users - Do they Mix?

[Federer]

A friend of mine recently received a legal complaint and GoDaddy threatened to close his account unless he pays $75 and promises to never sending out unsolicited messages again. For someone that relies exclusively on buying hand-registered domains and selling them for a small profit (via sending emails to businesses), this is a big blow)

I am not sure if the majority of registries allow the sending of commercial-orientated emails to parties that have not given their consent/permission to receive those offers - even if these are individual emails being sent out one at a time. GoDaddy for one do not allow it and have a tight anti spam policy, under point 11 here: https://www.godaddy.com/legal-agreements.aspx
"We do not tolerate the transmission of spam. We define spam as the sending of Unsolicited Commercial Email (UCE), Unsolicited Bulk Email (UBE) or Unsolicited Facsimiles (Fax), which is email or facsimile sent to recipients as an advertisement or otherwise, without first obtaining prior confirmed consent to receive these communications from the sender."

Many domain investors proactively send out emails to companies that feel could benefit from owning their domain names. I'd love to hear your comments/opinions on point and if you know of any registries that allow sending of unsolicited messages, sent 1 by 1 to hand-selected companies.

For domain investors that rely heavily on proactive selling to end users, this is a key point.

 

[DU]

I'd love to hear your comments/opinions on point and if you know of any registries that allow sending of unsolicited messages, sent 1 by 1 to hand-selected companies.

For domain investors that rely heavily on proactive selling to end users, this is a key point.

It has nothing to do with registries. Registrars may have some written or unwritten policy but....

Spam is still Spam.

No registrar is going to say that they allow you to use their services for spam. The question is more whether they will turn a blind eye to it.

For domain investors that rely heavily on proactive selling to end users, this is a key point.

Call a spade a spade. "For domainers that rely on spam".

This also only needs to be posted in one place. I've read it twice already and there are rumors of a third version of this question.

 

[Name Trader]

That's rich, on GoDaddy's part. The biggest spammer of them all. I have a very big inbox, and about half of it is full of GoDaddy eMail. They even send the same emails to the registrant and the account holder. About 80% of my eMail filters are related to GoDaddy eMails. And to make matters worse, they occasionally change the text in the Subject just to mess with your filters. I'm just glad I removed the majority of my domains away from them a long time ago, else I would be drowning in GoDaddy eMails.

 

[DU]

That's rich, on GoDaddy's part. The biggest spammer of them all. I have a very big inbox, and about half of it is full of GoDaddy eMail. They even send the same emails to the registrant and the account holder. About 80% of my eMail filters are related to GoDaddy eMails. And to make matters worse, they occasionally change the text in the Subject just to mess with your filters. I'm just glad I removed the majority of my domains away from them a long time ago, else I would be drowning in GoDaddy eMails.

All offers come with:

If you do not wish to receive our special notices, please unsubscribe here https://www.godaddy.com/unsubscribe.

You're also in a business relationship making the rules slightly different.

Namecheap has the same policy.