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Wild West Domains Must Still Be on List of Registrars Which Facilitate Email Spam

October 21, 2019 By John Colascione 1 Comment

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PALM BEACH, FL – Way, way, way back in 2009, Brian Krebs from Krebs on Security, a popular security website came up with a list of the top ten domain registrars (highlighted in a Washington Post article) which facilitate the majority of spam via email, and Wild West Domains, owned by GoDaddy held a spot on that list.

Wild West Domains Powers Thousands Of Reseller Sites Across The Web
Wild West Domains Powers Thousands Of Reseller Sites Across The Web

Out of roughly 900 accredited domain name registrars at the time, spammers registered Web sites advertised in junk e-mail mostly through the following top ten registrars (at that time):

  1. XinNet Cyber Information Company Limited
  2. eNom
  3. Network Solutions
  4. Register.com
  5. Planet Online
  6. Regtime Ltd.
  7. OnlineNIC Inc.
  8. Spot Domain LLC
  9. Wild West Domains
  10. Hichina Web Solutions

About 10 years later this still appears to be a problem.

I use both GoDaddy and Wild West Domains (as a reseller) and I began looking into this when I received an email yesterday from GoDaddy which operated fine, but when I received that same identical email just moments later from Wild West Domains, I received a “warning message” on the email link that it was “suspicious” which I reported to the team who operate Wild West Domains with hopes that they will fix it.

Email from GoDaddy.com

GoDaddy Afternic
Email from GoDaddy.com to Authorize domains for Afternic

Email from SecureServer.net

Wild West Domains Afternic
Email from Wild West Domains to Authorize domains for Afternic

GoDaddy emails come from the GoDaddy.com email address while all Wild West Domain emails come from the widely used secureserver.net email address which is shared among all Wild West Domains re-seller accounts. Not great.

As a Wild West Reseller for well over ten years, I hate to see these types of errors and problems which hinder trust and usability experiences for customers who use the service. Looks very bad for re-sellers like myself.

There are also errors on other parts of the service which you typically will never experience on the GoDaddy.com platform and I feel that the technical and development team behind the re-seller accounts need a boost in oversight to ensure the Wild West Domains portals work just as flawlessly as the GoDaddy.com side.

As a case-in-point, visiting the Wild West Domains account and trying to go through the process of verifying the Afternic participation after receiving the suspicious email to give the authorization doesn’t even work and just sends you to a blank screen, while that same process on the GoDaddy end works perfect. What a disaster.

Wild West Domains Afternic Screen
Screen on Firefox, Internet Explorer and Google Chrome.

As far as the email situation, I ran both domains through some online tools (MXToolbox.com and SenderScore.org) and I don’t see anything that fundamental different on the surface but there must be something different about the domains or sender-scores – or potentially the secureserver.net domain is manually flagged.

Simple Sender Score Metrics (https://senderscore.org)

 Sender Score Metrics GoDaddy.com
Sender Score Metrics GoDaddy.com

Simple Sender Score Metrics (https://senderscore.org)

  Sender Score Metrics Wild West Domains
Sender Score Metrics Wild West Domains

Hopefully someone at Wild West Domains can use these visuals and details to better look into what is happening. Wild West Domains powers thousands of re-seller sites across the web and these problems affect all of them and their hundreds of thousands of customers.

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About The Author: John Colascione is Chief Executive Officer of Internet Marketing Services Inc. He specializes in Website Monetization, is a Google AdWords Certified Professional, authored a ‘how to’ book called ”Mastering Your Website‘, and is a key player in several Internet related businesses through his search engine strategy brand Searchen Networks®

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Comments

  1. Undaunt says

    October 21, 2019 at 2:28 pm

    Received one from a dynadot.info email urging me to renew a name at godaddy.Name ia not due to expire until next year .I forwarded email to abuse @ godaddy.com after contacting joe styler of godaddy.
    Spam email was from [email protected]. registered at dynadot.com according to whois check and registered 10-18-2019.

    This phishing scam to get into peoples account if they dont do diligence check before clicking to give away their password.

    Hope others are seeing your article and be careful.There are criminals ans hackers among domain members and most should stop giving too much of their info or how many names they have or membrrs who want to see what kind if names one owns.

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