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anidifranco · 12-09-2003, 02:05 PM

It happened to me also a few months ago. I have pasted the emails below:
Dear XXXXXXXX

We have received apparently legitimate complaints that you are sending mass,
unsolicited emails, newsgroup posts, or Instant Messenger advertisements
for/from removed.com. Go Daddy Software requests that you cease this
immediately. Failure to do so may lead to actions such as the suspension or
cancellation of service.

Although Go Daddy Software may or may not be hosting your site, we are the
Registrar of the domain name. When you registered the domain name with us
you agreed to the terms of our Registration Agreement.
(https://registrar.godaddy.com/regAgreement.asp)

I'd like to bring Chapter 7 of this agreement to your attention:

7. RESTRICTION OF SERVICES; RIGHT OF REFUSAL

You agree not to use the services provided by Go Daddy, or to allow or
enable others, to use the services provided by Go Daddy for the purposes of:
The transmission of unsolicited email (SPAM)
Repetitive, high volume inquires into any of the services provided by Go
Daddy (i.e. domain name availability, etc.).

You agree that Go Daddy, in its sole discretion and without liability to
you, may refuse to accept the registration of any domain name. Go Daddy also
may in its sole discretion and without liability to you delete the
registration of any domain name during the first thirty (30) days after
registration has taken place. Go Daddy may also cancel the registration of a
domain name, after thirty (30) days, if that name is being used in
association with spam or morally objectionable activities. Morally
objectionable activities will include, but not be limited to: activities
designed to defame, embarrass, harm, abuse, threaten, slander or harass
third parties; activities prohibited by the laws of the United States and/or
foreign territories in which You conduct business; activities designed to
encourage unlawful behavior by others, such as hate crimes, terrorism and
child pornography; activities that are tortious, vulgar, obscene, invasive
of the privacy of a third party, racially, ethnically, or otherwise
objectionable; activities designed to impersonate the identity of a third
party; and activities designed to harm minors in any way. In the event Go
Daddy refuses a registration or deletes an existing registration during the
first thirty (30) days after registration, you will receive a refund of any
fees paid to Go Daddy in connection with the registration either being
canceled or refused. In the event Go Daddy deletes the registration of a
domain name being used in association with spam or morally objectionable
activities, no refund will be issued.

PLEASE NOTE:
You are required to respond to this notification within 24 hours stating
your intentions. Failure to do so may lead to actions such as the
suspension or cancellation of service.

Please also be aware that under the same Registration Agreement, all contact
information (including email address) for the Administrative and Technical
domain contacts must be valid and complete. If this information is
innacurate, and is not changed within 5 days, you will be in breach of
contract for the registration agreement, and your domain name may be subject
to cancellation. Please refer to sections 5 and 6 of the Registration
Agreement for further information regarding your obligation to maintain
valid contact information.

If your contact information is accurate, we thank you.

Regards,

Spam and Abuse Department
GoDaddy.com

Us :
> Dear Sirs,
>
> (removed).com is a free url redirection service. When users join our
> service they agree to our Terms & Conditions to not spam or send
> unsolicited email. When a user violates our terms, our policy is to
> immediately remove the offending url and block the abusive user from
> returning to our service.
>
> You did not include a particular url in this warning email, however we
> have terminated three accounts within the last few days for violating
> our terms of service. The accounts we have previously terminated are:
> (removed for privacy)
>
> If the URL you refer to in this email is not one of the above, please
> send us the URL and we will immediately delete the account.
>
> We Thank You for bringing this matter to our attention.
>
> Regards,
> (removed for privacy)

Them :
> Dear (removed for privacy),
>
> Thank you for contacting Go Daddy's Spam and Abuse Department
>
> We define spam as a mailing sent to recipients, as an advertisement or
> otherwise, without first obtaining prior confirmed consent to receive
> mailings from your domain by the recipient. Please realize that we do
> not consider consent to be transferable. Simply purchasing, renting, or
> leasing an "opt-in" list from another company does not constitute proof
> of opt-in. If you or another company is sending mailings advertising
> your site to individuals that have not requested this information, it is
> our opinion that you are spamming these individuals.
>
> I have supplied an example address from a complaint in order to allow
> you to investigate the situation and show proof of opt-in to your
> mailings. If you can provide such proof, via server logs showing Date,
> Time, and IP address of when the subscription took place, or a copy of
> their opt-in confirmation email, we can probably chalk this up as a
> situation where the person has forgotten they opted-in.
>
> The example address is: [email protected], a copy of the offending
> email message has been included at the end of this message to assist you
> in your investigation.
>
> *PLEASE NOTE you must reply with the requested information within 48
> hours, failure to do so may lead to actions such as the suspension or
> cancellation of your service.
>
> Here is a copy of the offending email message:
>
> Hi,
> NEW E-GOLD Randomizer!
> Add your E-GOLD account to this Randomizer
> and you'll become one of the many E-GOLD
> members who earn money every day without lifting a finger.
> All members are rotated on all of our sites which rank
> in the top 1/2% to 3% on the net today = thousands
> of chances for payments to be sent to your OWN E-GOLD account for
> nothing! This one takes in over 200-250 receipts a DAY - members get
> those! We are the FIRST E-GOLD Randomizer and the ONLY one that lists
> where YOU are promoted at so you can actually check up on it. In
> addition you can promote the Randomizer yourself for evenmore income!
>
> Dont delay!
>
> http://(removed for privacy)
> ************************************************** **********************
> ****
> ***********************************************
> If you dont want to receive further emails.Click
> mailto:[email protected]?subject=REMOVE
>
> -----
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Spam and Abuse Department
> GoDaddy.com
>

Us:
> Dear Sirs,
>
> I understand your definition of spam as we (removed) also define
> it the same way. We (removed.com) do not send any emails at all, so we
> did not send the offending email listed below. We have terminated the
> account ( http://removed.com ) and put the offending
> user's email address ( [email protected] ) in a blocked email list
> to prevent him from using that email to sign up with us again.
>
> Before we terminated the account ( http://removed
> ) it simply redirected to some sales page for the egold randomizer
> product, this web page was not ours, and was not hosted on any of our
> servers. The browser url box indeed did show
> removed.com , but the web site itself was hosted
> elsewhere. It appears the spammer signed up for our url redirection
> service using the name egoldrandomizer, he then forwarded the url to his
> sales page, he then sent UCE email advertising his site, not ours. We
> regret this happened and do our best to avoid such incidents by having a
> strong Terms page ( http://www.removed.com/terms.htm ) but can not
> fully control what others do.
>
> As an example of how this happened I have created the following:
>
> Note that http://domains.removed.com/ will forward you to
> http://www.godaddy.com . One could now send spam advertising
> http://domains.removed.com but the surfer would actually be on the
> godaddy web site. I simply created this to explain how our business
> works. We provide a service that allows webmasters with long hard to
> remember urls, shorten the url by using our redirection service,
> unfortunately we are sometimes the target of spammers trying to hide
> their identity.
>
> We provide a abuse email address on our web site and always immediatly
> terminate spammers. However this time, we didnt' recieve a complaint
> about the ( http://(removed) ) URL untill you sent
> it to us. Of course we have now terminated the account.
>
> Again, we do not send any email at all, we are a url redirection
> service. If you have any questions or other requirements please let us
> know.
>
> Regards,
Removed

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12-09-2003, 02:05 PM
anidifranco So Fucking Banned Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 711	It happened to me also a few months ago. I have pasted the emails below: Dear XXXXXXXX We have received apparently legitimate complaints that you are sending mass, unsolicited emails, newsgroup posts, or Instant Messenger advertisements for/from removed.com. Go Daddy Software requests that you cease this immediately. Failure to do so may lead to actions such as the suspension or cancellation of service. Although Go Daddy Software may or may not be hosting your site, we are the Registrar of the domain name. When you registered the domain name with us you agreed to the terms of our Registration Agreement. (https://registrar.godaddy.com/regAgreement.asp) I'd like to bring Chapter 7 of this agreement to your attention: 7. RESTRICTION OF SERVICES; RIGHT OF REFUSAL You agree not to use the services provided by Go Daddy, or to allow or enable others, to use the services provided by Go Daddy for the purposes of: The transmission of unsolicited email (SPAM) Repetitive, high volume inquires into any of the services provided by Go Daddy (i.e. domain name availability, etc.). You agree that Go Daddy, in its sole discretion and without liability to you, may refuse to accept the registration of any domain name. Go Daddy also may in its sole discretion and without liability to you delete the registration of any domain name during the first thirty (30) days after registration has taken place. Go Daddy may also cancel the registration of a domain name, after thirty (30) days, if that name is being used in association with spam or morally objectionable activities. Morally objectionable activities will include, but not be limited to: activities designed to defame, embarrass, harm, abuse, threaten, slander or harass third parties; activities prohibited by the laws of the United States and/or foreign territories in which You conduct business; activities designed to encourage unlawful behavior by others, such as hate crimes, terrorism and child pornography; activities that are tortious, vulgar, obscene, invasive of the privacy of a third party, racially, ethnically, or otherwise objectionable; activities designed to impersonate the identity of a third party; and activities designed to harm minors in any way. In the event Go Daddy refuses a registration or deletes an existing registration during the first thirty (30) days after registration, you will receive a refund of any fees paid to Go Daddy in connection with the registration either being canceled or refused. In the event Go Daddy deletes the registration of a domain name being used in association with spam or morally objectionable activities, no refund will be issued. PLEASE NOTE: You are required to respond to this notification within 24 hours stating your intentions. Failure to do so may lead to actions such as the suspension or cancellation of service. Please also be aware that under the same Registration Agreement, all contact information (including email address) for the Administrative and Technical domain contacts must be valid and complete. If this information is innacurate, and is not changed within 5 days, you will be in breach of contract for the registration agreement, and your domain name may be subject to cancellation. Please refer to sections 5 and 6 of the Registration Agreement for further information regarding your obligation to maintain valid contact information. If your contact information is accurate, we thank you. Regards, Spam and Abuse Department GoDaddy.com Us : > Dear Sirs, > > (removed).com is a free url redirection service. When users join our > service they agree to our Terms & Conditions to not spam or send > unsolicited email. When a user violates our terms, our policy is to > immediately remove the offending url and block the abusive user from > returning to our service. > > You did not include a particular url in this warning email, however we > have terminated three accounts within the last few days for violating > our terms of service. The accounts we have previously terminated are: > (removed for privacy) > > If the URL you refer to in this email is not one of the above, please > send us the URL and we will immediately delete the account. > > We Thank You for bringing this matter to our attention. > > Regards, > (removed for privacy) Them : > Dear (removed for privacy), > > Thank you for contacting Go Daddy's Spam and Abuse Department > > We define spam as a mailing sent to recipients, as an advertisement or > otherwise, without first obtaining prior confirmed consent to receive > mailings from your domain by the recipient. Please realize that we do > not consider consent to be transferable. Simply purchasing, renting, or > leasing an "opt-in" list from another company does not constitute proof > of opt-in. If you or another company is sending mailings advertising > your site to individuals that have not requested this information, it is > our opinion that you are spamming these individuals. > > I have supplied an example address from a complaint in order to allow > you to investigate the situation and show proof of opt-in to your > mailings. If you can provide such proof, via server logs showing Date, > Time, and IP address of when the subscription took place, or a copy of > their opt-in confirmation email, we can probably chalk this up as a > situation where the person has forgotten they opted-in. > > The example address is: [email protected], a copy of the offending > email message has been included at the end of this message to assist you > in your investigation. > > PLEASE NOTE you must reply with the requested information within 48 > hours, failure to do so may lead to actions such as the suspension or > cancellation of your service. > > Here is a copy of the offending email message: > > Hi, > NEW E-GOLD Randomizer! > Add your E-GOLD account to this Randomizer > and you'll become one of the many E-GOLD > members who earn money every day without lifting a finger. > All members are rotated on all of our sites which rank > in the top 1/2% to 3% on the net today = thousands > of chances for payments to be sent to your OWN E-GOLD account for > nothing! This one takes in over 200-250 receipts a DAY - members get > those! We are the FIRST E-GOLD Randomizer and the ONLY one that lists > where YOU are promoted at so you can actually check up on it. In > addition you can promote the Randomizer yourself for evenmore income! > > Dont delay! > > http://(removed for privacy) > *********************************************** ****************** > > ********************************************* > If you dont want to receive further emails.Click > mailto:[email protected]?subject=REMOVE > > ----- > > Sincerely, > > Spam and Abuse Department > GoDaddy.com > Us: > Dear Sirs, > > I understand your definition of spam as we (removed) also define > it the same way. We (removed.com) do not send any emails at all, so we > did not send the offending email listed below. We have terminated the > account ( http://removed.com ) and put the offending > user's email address ( [email protected] ) in a blocked email list > to prevent him from using that email to sign up with us again. > > Before we terminated the account ( http://removed > ) it simply redirected to some sales page for the egold randomizer > product, this web page was not ours, and was not hosted on any of our > servers. The browser url box indeed did show > removed.com , but the web site itself was hosted > elsewhere. It appears the spammer signed up for our url redirection > service using the name egoldrandomizer, he then forwarded the url to his > sales page, he then sent UCE email advertising his site, not ours. We > regret this happened and do our best to avoid such incidents by having a > strong Terms page ( http://www.removed.com/terms.htm ) but can not > fully control what others do. > > As an example of how this happened I have created the following: > > Note that http://domains.removed.com/ will forward you to > http://www.godaddy.com . One could now send spam advertising > http://domains.removed.com but the surfer would actually be on the > godaddy web site. I simply created this to explain how our business > works. We provide a service that allows webmasters with long hard to > remember urls, shorten the url by using our redirection service, > unfortunately we are sometimes the target of spammers trying to hide > their identity. > > We provide a abuse email address on our web site and always immediatly > terminate spammers. However this time, we didnt' recieve a complaint > about the ( http://(removed) ) URL untill you sent > it to us. Of course we have now terminated the account. > > Again, we do not send any email at all, we are a url redirection > service. If you have any questions or other requirements please let us > know. > > Regards, Removed (continued next post)