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Hopefully I just spoiled a spammer’s whole week. How? I bought the domain that he’s trying to promote (MyNiceMailAt.com) before he did.

When I receive comment spam which doesn’t obviously link to a gambling, pornographic or pharmaceutical site then I usually do a little investigation to see what’s on the site, who owns it, why they’re spamming me, etc.

In the last 24 hours I’ve been hit by comment spam promoting MyNiceMailAt.com.

1. I tried to look at mynicemailat.com, and it didn’t exist; so
2. I tried to find the domain ownership records, and they didn’t exist either.

MyNiceMailAt.com was an unregistered domain, being promoted by a spammer.

1. I like to do my bit for hindering spammers; so
2. I bought the domain, before the spammer could; so
3. the entire spam run has been a waste of the spammer’s time and resources.

Useful Info

• If you’d like to learn more about comment spam, I highly recommend Ann Elisabeth’s SpamHuntress blog.
• This is not the first time such action has been taken by a spam recipient, last year jagk.com was similarly snapped up, and now has a regularly updated spam blacklist that you can add to your .htaccess file (if you don’t run your blog server, tell your administrator about it).