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In Our Opinion: Parked domains are becoming a Sanctuary for Scammers. We at SFA (ScamFraudAlert.com) believe godaddy.com and others need to police this part of their business to protect the public.

There are lessons that godaddy.com and others can learn from CareerBuilder.com Jobs - The Largest Job Search, Employment & Careers Site and Find Jobs. Build a Better Career. Find Your Calling. | Monster.com when they encountered and continue to encounter an exploitation of their database.

Careerbuilder.com and monster.com have put in place security measures that seems to be working. Perhaps GoDaddy and others that sell parked domains need to get a hold of their blueprints.

A Good Example of Parked Domain
www.Paypal-resolution.com

Whois Record
Registrant:
Domain Discreet
ATTN: paypal-resolution.com
P.O. Box 278
Yarmouth, NS B5A 4B2
CA
Email:

Registrar Name....: REGISTER.COM, INC.
Registrar Whois...: whois.register.com
Registrar Homepage: www.register.com

Domain Name: paypal-resolution.com

Created on..............: Sat, Apr 05, 2008
Expires on..............: Sun, Apr 05, 2009
Record last updated on..: Sat, Apr 05, 2008

Administrative Contact:
Domain Discreet
ATTN: paypal-resolution.com
P.O. Box 278
Yarmouth, NS B5A 4B2
CA
Phone: 1-902-7495331
Email:

Technical Contact:
Domain Discreet
ATTN: paypal-resolution.com
P.O. Box 278
Yarmouth, NS B5A 4B2
CA
Phone: 1-902-7495331
Email:

DNS Servers:

dns038.c.register.com
dns010.d.register.com
dns044.a.register.com
dns132.b.register.com

McAfee SiteAdvisor

www.paypal-resolution.com/ may try to steal your information.

Why were you redirected to this page? When we visited this site, we found it may be designed to trick you into submitting your financial or personal information to online scammers. This is a serious security threat which could lead to identity theft, financial losses or other dissemination of personal information.

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Castlecops.com

Please Update Your Informations !
accounts@paypaI.com to undisclosed-re.
show details 12:16 PM (54 minutes ago)
from accounts@paypaI.com accounts@paypai.com
reply-to donotreply@paypai.com,
to undisclosed-recipients,
date Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 12:16 PM
subject Please Update Your Informations !

hide details 12:16 PM (54 minutes ago)


Dear Customer,
This email has been sent to you by PayPal, Inc. to inform you that we were unable to process some of your recent paypal transactions. This might be due to one of the following reasons:

# Submitting incorrect information during initial sign up process.
# A recent change in your personal information. (eg: billing address, phone)
# An inability to accurately verify your personal information.


As a result, to ensure that your service is not interrupted we request you to confirm and verify your account information By Clicking Here . However Failure to do so will result in abnormal account behaviour during transactions.


(Your case ID for this reason is PP-227-460-629.)

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Registrant Search: "Moniker Privacy Services" was found in about 688,102 other domains
Registrar History: 2 registrars with 2 drops.
NS History: 11 changes on 7 unique name servers over 6 years.
IP History: 29 changes on 12 unique name servers over 4 years.
Whois History: 140 records have been archived since 2003-06-07.
Reverse IP: 225,304 other sites hosted on this server.
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Whois Record

Domain Name: PAYPAI.COM

Registrant [162392]:
Moniker Privacy Services papai@domainsservice.com
20 SW 27th Ave.
Suite 201
Pompano Beach
FL
33069
US

Administrative Contact [162392]: paypai@domainsservice.com
Moniker Privacy Services
Moniker Privacy Services
20 SW 27th Ave.
Suite 201
Pompano Beach
FL
33069
US
Phone: +1.9549842867
Fax: +1.9549699155

Billing Contact [162392]: paypai@domainsservice.com
Moniker Privacy Services
Moniker Privacy Services
20 SW 27th Ave.
Suite 201
Pompano Beach
FL
33069
US
Phone: +1.9549842867
Fax: +1.9549699155

Technical Contact [162392]:
Moniker Privacy Services
Moniker Privacy Services
20 SW 27th Ave.
Suite 201
Pompano Beach
FL
33069
US
Phone: +1.9549842867
Fax: +1.9549699155

Domain servers in listed order:

NS1.DOMAINSERVICE.COM 67.99.176.12
NS2.DOMAINSERVICE.COM 67.97.247.209
NS3.DOMAINSERVICE.COM 64.49.213.231
NS4.DOMAINSERVICE.COM 67.97.247.210

Record created on: 2005-08-12 02:52:57.0
Database last updated on: 2006-12-14 16:36:09.09
Domain Expires on: 2010-08-18 00:45:52.0

FIRST REGISTERED

Main Content
Paypai.com on 2003-06-07 - Domain History
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Domain: paypai.com - Domain History
Cache Date: 2003-06-07
Registrar: BULKREGISTER.COM, INC.
Registrant Search: Click on an email address we found in this whois record
to see which other domains the registrant is associated with:
askmysite@aol.com

Bulkregister.com for information purposes only, that is, to assist you in

AskMySite.com
3720 Ave L
Brooklyn, NY 11210
US

Domain Name: PAYPAI.COM

Administrative Contact:
Send Your Offer - AskMySite@aol.com
AskMySite.com
Reserved Domain Names - Send your offer!
Cresskill, NJ 07626
US
Phone: +1(347)823-1286
Fax: +1(347)823-1286
Technical Contact:
Send Your Offer - AskMySite@aol.com
AskMySite.com
Reserved Domain Names - Send your offer!
Cresskill, NJ 07626
US
Phone: +1(347)823-1286
Fax: +1(347)823-1286

Record updated on 2002-08-18 00:45:52
Record created on 2002-08-18
Record expires on 2003-08-18
Database last updated on 2003-06-07 05:05:46 EST

Domain servers in listed order:

NS1.MYDOMAIN.COM 64.94.117.195
NS2.MYDOMAIN.COM 216.52.121.228
NS3.MYDOMAIN.COM 66.150.161.130

April 19, 2008

Yesterday I reported 832 spams to SpamCop and Knujon. For the past 90 days I've been conducting a casual survey of all that spam (several megabytes a day) to try and determine who is sending what. I don't check all the links -- it would be a full-time job. I check those crooks using Google, Geocities or Blogspot redirect pages, as well as any others who are obviously trying to mask the spamvertised entity.

Herbal remedies and Canadian Pharmacy head the scum list with an average 25% of all spam received. But the interesting point is they seldom use the same spamvertised domain in the same 24-hour barrage. In one day's spam the Herbal rememdies crime cartel had 127 ads. They used 67 different domains. As time goes on, they maintain that kind of average -- but the domain names change. This is a clear indication that they are utilizing an ICANN policy known as "domain tasting" -- or more accurately put: domain kiting.

Here's how it works: Unscrupulous rogue registrars utilize a robot to register hundreds or thousands of domains -- but they don't pay for them. Their robots automatically deploy spam, phishing, identity theft or virus pages on the web, and then begin sending millions of spams directing victims to those pages. At the end of the ICANN "tasting" period of five days, the robots DROP the domains. Moments later, they register them again and the cycle starts all over. Most often they end up with many different domains.

Did you ever buy a domain without paying for it?

This is a sophisticated, supposedly legal version of domain squatting, which has been going on since the Clinton administration deregulated domains. (Thank you Bill, Hillary and Algore!) And when you open something as important as domains to a band of unrelated, unregulated internationals along with any jackleg-out-to-make-a-buck on earth, you're just inviting criminal exploitation.

All domains acquired should be paid for immediately at the point of registration. PERIOD. Rogue registrars should NOT be allowed to "taste" (aka "kite") thousands of domains and then release them only to pick them back up again moments later.

If ICANN wants to offer "grace" or "tasting" period, then the purchaser should be required to request and then obtain a refund. Ideally, via the postal service in WRITING to provide a court admissable paper trail with real, valid signatures.

This would weed out the criminal "tasters."

The side benefit to ICANN would be, in effect, a 'loan' to ICANN of the use of hundreds of thousands of dollars for the period of time between registration and refund -- which could amount to a considerable piece of interest.

At that point ALL domain tasting would probably grind to a dead stop -- because the only people "tasting" (kiting) domains are criminals who would never otherwise purchase the domains -- interested only in exploiting and profiteering off the system.

Let anyone who wants a domain -- for testing or otherwise -- PAY FOR IT. Period. If they don't like it or don't use it, then get a refund like the rest of us do.

Then the world (particularly the search engines and those who use them) would be a much better off.

At any rate, this is just one more indication that ICANN should be dissolved and a new, accountable entity put in charge of the domain system.

THE BEST SOLUTION OF ALL

would be for ALL domains to be permanently registered once and ONLY once. If registration lapses, then the domain is DEAD. They would NEVER be released back for reuse -- they would simply cease to exist. This would solve a number of problems now troubling the internet. After a while there would be only legitimate domains in legitimate use. And there would be far fewer domains. Honorable intentions would prevail.

End of story

Fred Showker

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