Global Domains International
Posted by glo on 30 Jul 2005 | Tagged as: Comment Spam
Another spammy company, only they don’t send the spam, no … no, they are a reputable company, instead they encourage their affiliates to spam via email. They even have a leads list you can use for sending out their spam. Amazing! They even have an anti-spam policy that states they have Zero Tolerance toward spammers. So why do they have a email leads list? Why don’t they send out the affiliate info themselves if it’s on the up-and-up?
I had one of their affiliates try to spam my comments. Hashcash didn’t let it through but I get an email generated by the Hashcash program with a list of all the spam attempts each week, which includes the spammy urls the spammers are hustling. This one appeared to be casino spam from the look of the domain, carvinal-casino.ws. Note the .ws. Global Domains International only sells .ws domains and they are are not accredited by ICANN. All that means is that they are not subject to the same rules that govern .com .net or .org registrars, including having their personal information available to the public. So you can not find out who owns a .ws domains if they don’t want you to know. That annoys me to no end, especially if the person is doing business online and using said business to spam me with.
Global Domains International is hustling a MLM scheme five levels down for their domain and hosting services. They claim that they were named one of America’s entrepreneurial growth leaders by Inc magazine in 2002. Perhaps that was before they decided to encourage spam or started marketing their affiliate program. I don’t know and don’t care, all I know is that one of their affiliates tried to spam my comments more than once and that the IP is within the company’s range of IPs. So the spam lives on their servers.
I found the following information about Global Domains International on biz.yahoo:
701 Palomar Airport Rd.,
Ste. 300 Carlsbad, CA
92009-1028
760-602-3000
760-602-3099
CEO: Michael S. Reed President: Alan Ezeir Global Domains International, which does business as WorldSite.ws, provides domain names with the “.ws” suffix for both individual and commercial use. The .ws suffix stands for western Samoa; the company has a royalty arrangement with the kingdom of Samoa to use the top-level country code assigned to the Pacific island nation by ICANN, the Internet regulatory body for domain names and numbers. Global Domains was founded in 1999.
I haven’t payed too much attention to the Hashcash generated emails I’ve gotten in the past year or so but I think I will from now on and post a comment on the ones that are especially slimy like this one.