I bought a domain name this morning at Moniker, and this evening I received the unsolicited email below. It’s kinda crazy that they are sending out these emails the same day as the domain registration. I wonder how many people are getting the same crap.
Ironically, I got a similar email last week under similar circumstances. See that one below for something interesting I noticed. Who else is getting these emails?
Email received 10/24
From: newdomain@inline.me
Subject: xxxxxxx.com purchase
I noticed you just bought xxxxxxxxxxx.com.
Our statistics indicate that your domain’s primary keyword phrase, ‘xxxxxx xxxxxx’, gets around x exact local searches per month and x exact global searches per month. We have many similar domain names available that get a lot more monthly searches and will bring you a lot more traffic.
Here is our list of domains about xxxxxx xxxxxx.
http://adddomainnames.com/?id=xxxxxxxxWe also have a daily premium domain drop list.
Subscribe to our drop list
http://adddomainnames.com/drop_subscribe.php?id=xxxxxxxxxWe can also help you with developing your domains, hosting your websites, and getting your sites to rank high in the search engines.
Now have a look at the previous email that I received last week. Notice the bolded segment, which seems to have been removed, perhaps because of the legal intervention from my registrar.
Email received 10/15
From: newdomain@inline.me
Subject: xxxxxxx.com purchase
I noticed you just bought xxxxxxxxxx.com from one of our partner registrars.
Our statistics indicate that domain’s primary keyword phrase, ‘xxxxxxxx xxxxxxx’, gets around x exact local searches per month and x exact global searches per month. We have many similar domain names available that get a lot more monthly searches and will bring you a lot more traffic.
Here is our list of domains about xxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxx.
http://adddomainnames.com/?e=xxxxxxxxxxxx@gmail.com&k=xxxxxxxxxWe also have a daily premium domain drop list.
Subscribe to our drop list
http://adddomainnames.com/drop_subscribe.php?e=xxxxxxxxxxxx@gmail.com&k=xxxxxxxxxxxxRandom premium domains we purchased and pricing.
These are first come first serve. Send an email to newdomain@inline.me
keyword | domain – (exact local searches | exact global searches) – price
motorcycle audio systems | motorcycleaudiosystems.com – (1600 | 1300) – $80
miss swan | missswan.com – (40500 | 90500) – $120
blood sugar levels chart | bloodsugarlevelschart.com – (22200 | 18000) – $200
how to tie your shoes | howtotieyourshoes.com – (2900 | 4400) – $110We can also help you with developing your domains, hosting your websites, and getting your sites to rank highly in the search engines.
newdomain@inline.me
10765 Reading Road – Cincinnati, Ohio
To Opt out:http://adddomainnames.com/unsubscribe.php?e=xxxxxxxxxx
I just received the same email after hand registering a domain at GoDaddy.
The version I received didn’t include this line “from one of our partner registrars.”
I’d be curious as to how they’re getting email addresses so quickly. I didn’t realize the whois db was updated that quickly.
One thing that makes me laugh – they use exact match data in the email, but when you click through they show broad match data for the domains they’re trying to sell.
The GoDaddy lawyers will be on ’em in now time.
Same here exactly the same after free reg @ godaddy.
Maybe its godady company seen as they are the kings of upselling already.
@ Liam
My names were registered at Moniker
Received exactly the same email (no bold part)
2 days after handreg at GoDaddy
Must be Verisign selling the info., because my hand -reg at Moniker got the same email, minus “Registrar partners.”
Elliot, do you like, SmithtownJobs.com , pop 115,715? Just registered it! You can have it. I’ll push it to your account.
I can ask on this thread, because it isn’t on the main thread!
I got the same e-mail this week, two days after a hand reg at GoDaddy.
I think they harvest emails from using yesterday’s drop lists and checking the whois of domains that are no longer available today. Godaddy make stacks of cash, and I know they are quite grubby in business – but I doubt they sell hot email addys to in yer face spammers so blatantly. The only way to avoid this is to use your spam email account on the whois.
Does anyone know why freshdrop is broke? Maybe its a good thing because the last few days Ive hand regged some good domains that will be easy to develop into sites that make profit, big or small.
Usually the better ones I see are already gone by the time I make it across all the godaddy shopping cart hurdles without inadvertantly signing up for some tripe I dont want or need lol.
I just got a bunch of these spam emails after registering domains from godaddy. I searched to see if other people are getting them too. That’s how I found this page. I knew about your blog from before. My question is where are they getting the data for “your domain gets : xyz local and xyz global searches”? You can look this up by hand but these guys are sending automated emails..so they must have database access to search data. What are they using?
I’M getting the same emails with domains registered at fabulous.
“Must be Verisign selling the info.”
Louise,
Maybe so but there are sites out there that list daily new registrations.
Example:
DailyChanges.com tracks the “Top 287 most active Name Servers”
by date and lists all the New Regges, Transfers In, Transfers Out, Deletions, etc..
The first 50 results are shown per list and the entire list can be downloaded.
Another one, Domain-Daily.com shows all the newly regged domains by date (24 hour delay) and extension.
And there are others I’m sure.
They may even have their own in-house script.
Same to me today. After just 6 hours godaddy informed my successful registration of loveliebe.com the similar email from newdomain@inline.me came.
I got the same email for a domain that was registered at domainmonster, it must be some way of harvesting the whois database.
I emailed both the eNom and NameCheap (inline.me & adddomainnames.com registrars) abuse departments about this. We’ll see if there’s any outcome from it.
Yummy Spam! Just got this after registering a new domain on Fabulous. Clearly these clowns are scanning newly regged lists and sending them out via bot.
I got one today. Registered last week at GoDaddy
My domain has been registered with BlueHost.com for 4 months. Just got the exact adddomainnames.com message you outlined in your blog.