[OT] DNSguruz pl help: whois structure, delegation & handling delegation with Tinydns.

[Tim]

Tim:
>> Sending spam to webmaster, hostmaster, or postmaster addresses is a
>> surefire way to get added to the spamfilter.  Mine get cluttered
>> with crap.
 

Sanjay Arora:
> Maybe I'm new and have rose-tinted glasses, but simply because I will
> get SPAM at that address, its not adequate reason for not having one,
> IMHO.

Well, there are *obligations* to provide abuse@ and postmaster@
addresses, and recommendations for the others, for domain names as well
as *obligations* that contact information be in the whois data.  Though
we all can think of good reasons why we don't want our information in
there.

But it may well be that the *only* way you'll get a reminder to renew
your domain name before it expires is to have an e-mail address in your
whois information.  Likewise if you need to converse with your registrar
about problems (they'll probably ignore what looks like complete
strangers trying to interfere with domain records).

I'd say you'd *need* to have details in your whois data unless your
registrar allows you to provide them directly with an address that won't
be provided in the whois.

There's a crude trick for avoiding most spam.  Spammers don't seem to
spam addresses with "spam" or "nospam" in them.  I don't think they do
so to be nice, I think it's because they presume them to be faked.  So
use a nospam subdomain with your whois data.

e.g. hostmaster at nospam.example.com

You will always get spam anyway, and I think you'll get more from other
sources than from your whois data.  My last several years of experience
on the internet would support that idea.

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