registries What about a spamming registry?

[vivaldi]

"Have seen many worried members of the domaining community around the world that have been a bit worried about potential spam through new cheap gTLD’s. Myself have so far received no spam at all from new gTLD’s..."

"However I was stunned the other day when the .top registry started to spam my inbox. It all started when I registered one .top."

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[Kate]

I think it's Chinese spammers harvesting the whois, based on lists of newly registered domains.
What makes you think it's the registry ?

 

[vivaldi]

I think it's Chinese spammers harvesting the whois, based on lists of newly registered domains.
What makes you think it's the registry ?

Because they offer registry reserved names and one of them are actually promoting the extension itself. Also to add, never ever got this much targeted spam regardless of extension regged.

 

[FPForum]

Interesting post @vivaldi! Although I have yet to receive any spam from gTLD's, I do believe some of them are trying different marketing stunts like this one you posted to increase their registrations....I think it was xyz doing free domains or $1 domains or something at one time too?

From what I have personally seen, not much through the inbox, but lots of different things using other methods. I'll have to keep your story in mind when I start dipping into more gTLDs!

 

[vivaldi]

Interesting post @vivaldi! Although I have yet to receive any spam from gTLD's, I do believe some of them are trying different marketing stunts like this one you posted to increase their registrations....I think it was xyz doing free domains or $1 domains or something at one time too?

From what I have personally seen, not much through the inbox, but lots of different things using other methods. I'll have to keep your story in mind when I start dipping into more gTLDs!

If I remember it right .xyz gave away around 500k (?) domains for free and the rest have been sold for a few bucks, a lot now of them are being sold at Asian registrars for $0.99 if the translator did it's job right.

 

[vivaldi]

This is still going on and I get offered to buy names such as youtube.top, bose.top and so on....... They even leave phone numbers, is there a yellow pages for China?