discuss Is This Acceptable Business Practice In Domaining?

[Silentptnr]

I got an email today and it was the first time I received this kind of offer. Thought I would share. Probably a scam of some kind, but I thought, the registrars or someone should do something about this. I don't think it's cool to be selling this information. Am I wrong?

Here's the email:

Hello Business Owners
We are providing whois domain
data of daily registered domains of all major tlds and
newgtlds.
Daily more than 120,000 domains are
registered we provide list of these domains as well as whois data of these
domains for very low price.
Whois data include address,
email id, contact number, country etc of registrant.

WHY YOU SHOULD
BUY DOMAIN OWNER DATABASE?

Ans:-
Those who Booked a DOMAIN
NAME, many of them would surely be needing :-
*Website Development
*Android Apps

*SEO

*SMO

*Web
Hosting.
*Customize Softwares .
*Bulk SMS.
*Email Marketing.
*Other
Promotions.

*So, You can Contact all NEW DOMAIN OWNERS via BULK Emails,
Telephonic or BULK SMS.

** IT HAS BEEN NOTIFIED , You could get 2 - 5% of INTERESTED
CLIENTS OUT OF IT.DATABASE WILL BE PROPERLY MANAGED IN EXCEL FORMAT WITH
FOLLOWING
CATEGORIES:-
*Domain Name
*QUERY
TIME
*DOMAIN REGISTER
DATE
*DOMAIN EXPIRY
DATE
*DOMAIN OWNER
Name
*DOMAIN OWNER EMAIL
ADDRESS
*DOMAIN OWNER PHONE
NUMBER
*DOMAIN REGISTRAR
WHOIS
*DOMAIN REGISTRAR
URLS
*COMPANY Name
*REGISTRANT CITY
*REGISTRANT STATE
*REGISTRANT ZIP
*REGISTRANT COUNTRY
*REGISTRANT EMAIL
*REGISTRANT FAX
*REGISTRANT PHONE
*ADMIN NAME
*ADMIN COUNTRY
*ADMIN
ADDRESS
*ADMIN CITY
*ADMIN STATE & COUNTRY
*ADMIN EMAIL
*ADMIN PHONE NUMBER
*TECHNICAL
NAME,COMPANY,ADDRESS,CITY,STATE,COUNTRY
*BILLING
NAME,COMPANY,ADDRESS,CITY,STATE,ZIP.
*NAME SERVER
1 , NAME SERVER 2, NAME SERVER 3, NAME SERVER 4
*DOMAIN STATUS 1,2,3,4

Price 60$ per month
global
For
demo reply back or check www.domainhills.com
for more details INDIA TOLL FREE NUMBER
18002120104
Note: - We didn’t tend to spam you, if you are not interested you can reply with a simple \"NO\",We will never contact you again. Thank you for your cooperation. Please click "Show Image" if the flyer is not showing.
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[Kuffy]

These offerw have been around for years, and if they were useful, the list compilers would be using them. I'd steer clear of that type of spamming. It can get you into trouble with Google, and a p'd off spam victim is more likely to block you than to buy anything imho.

 

[deez007]

I think it sucks that this data is being sold but unfortunatley it's not really the Registrars fault......these guys are basically just using scrapers to get all all the data thats available to the public on Whois records. Then sell it to whoever they can find. I would imagine that these folks are probably not even selling "fresh" data.. they probably selling the old data that they have already marketed too and milked as much sales as they could trying to sell web development / SEO / Whatever services and then sell the old data to someone else...

 

[Asfas1000]

I think WHOIS is public information, and selling this info is not illegal or even unethical ie. a convenience service.

The unethical part is usually the use of this data by spammers....

 

[Furquan]

They all are responsible giving you headache of unwanted call's from the so called Web Designer, Web Hosting provider. I have got surprised 3 days before, as I finished one domain register, after an hour I got call from a Lady telling me my registered domain names & giving me her sales pitch of Web Designing. It's strange but it's true, that someone insider of domain register sold them data at cheap.