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"We explored trying to email whois contacts or standard addresses" Ironic since the original reason for the tech contact was exactly to be notified for issues
by larrys 13y ago
"We explored trying to email whois contacts or standard addresses"
Ironic since the original reason for the tech contact was exactly to be notified for issues like this.
Would like to add that as a registrar though we get a reasonably good response to emails that we send. [1]
Perhaps there is something about getting an email from google that says "it's probably spam". Or any large well known company that is often the subject of spam attempts.
Even given that though it's hard for me to believe that the results were close to zero.
[1] We also find that when a domain is deleted for non payment the person frequently claims they received no email notice but then proceeds to make some reference to something that was on the email notice.
- Matt_Cutts 13y agoMan, we could talk about this for hours. There's a lot of nuances involved in trying to alert site owners to issues, especially at a large scale. We've tried about 6-7 approaches over the years, and I'm still not completely happy with where we are. Freehosts are especially tough (WordPress, Blogger, etc.) because whois would just never work there.