How did telemarkerter find my new domain so fast?
 

The other day I registered a domain with DirectNic. It took about 24 hours for the DNS to catch up and I stuck up a single sentence test page. Later I get a voicemail from someone from a web design company wishing to talk to me about my recent registration of the domain, which they mentioned by name.

I was really surprised that someone "found" me that quick. I've had domains for years that nobody has ever called about and I've had calls that even though they didn't mention a domain I could figure out which one they were calling about from what they were pitching, but it was domains that had been up for a good while. I've seen some registers that sell recently registered domain lists, but I don't see that anywhere on the DirectNic site that they do. Is there some sort of master list covering all registrations sold somewhere?

Not that it's a big deal, my contact # always goes to voicemail, I just thought it odd. The guy could have been sitting there bored typing in names and just happened upon my recently registered... I just wish surfers could find a site that fast:1orglaugh

Hmm.. gonna guess that evidently theres a system out there that lets you search by registration dates. So you search for yesterday and today and start calling them..

Sounds entirely possible, but pretty bold and probably not much success in it.

Some web hosting companies buy leads straight from networksolutions or whoever.

24 hrs is a pretty small window though.

Yeah, that totally tripped me; sounds like someone is offering a nice expensive superfast list.:1orglaugh

deleted domains have had a 'todays registrations' section for quite a few months now

Same thing happens to me all the time. Withing a day or two, I start getting mail to info@mydomin asking me about those fucken logos. I'd love to stick an ice pick in whatever asshole is responsible for that crap. I haven't registered a domain in a year that I don't get those on. And some of those are brand new names, never registered.

Yeah a company from the states calls me the next day on my domains to.

aplus.net

Luckily when they called me i had just finished moving a bunch of mainstream shit off their servers...they suck dick

Yes this is a very annoying problem. ICANN requires all registrars to leave give people access to the database. So spammers troll through these everyday.

When I register a domain, I will get hosting spam withing 10 minutes sometimes.

DirectNIC handles complaints all the time from people think we are selling information, but that is not the truth - its the data mining people. We have our own hosting product, we would rather our customers use it!