The spam all links to the domain of:
http://t-e-x-a-s-poker.com
The site itself contains nothing on the outset – just baseless text. So who is texaspoker? Well that’s the fun bit. The WHOIS points to a registrar of “gandi.net”. Gandi.net has this to say on the domain:
domain: T-E-X-A-S-POKER.COM
owner-address: Djibuty Convega
owner-address: company
owner-address: 2003
owner-address: St John’s, English Harbour
owner-address: Antigua and Barbuda
owner-phone: +188.4306129
owner-fax: +188.4306129
owner-e-mail: brooksjohnson2004@yahoo.com
admin-c: DC1330-GANDI
tech-c: AR41-GANDI
bill-c: DC1330-GANDI
nserver: ns7.gandi.net 217.70.177.44
nserver: custom2.gandi.net 217.70.179.35
reg_created: 2005-07-07 10:44:32
expires: 2006-07-07 10:44:32
created: 2005-07-07 16:44:33
changed: 2005-08-12 09:39:33person: Djibuty Convega
nic-hdl: DC1330-GANDI
address: company
address: 2003
address: St John’s, English Harbour
address: Antigua and Barbuda
phone: +188.4306129
fax: +188.4306129
e-mail: beth.ruble@gmail.com
lastupdated: 2005-07-07 16:46:33person: GANDI Auto Register 4.1
nic-hdl: AR41-GANDI
address: GANDI
address: 38 rue Notre-Dame de Nazareth
address: F-75003
address: Paris
address: France
phone: N/A
e-mail: support@gandi.net
But will gandi.net do anything of this spamer? Well, not even worth a try according to its clause.
by doing a whois on any domain name found in the email, you see that the domain name is handled by Gandi: Gandi is an ICANN accredited Registrar, and as such registers domain names on behalf of its customer. Gandi provides no webhosting nor email accounts to its customer, only the registration of the domain name. The use of the domain name is only up to the person owning it, and/or its contacts (see whois to find the owner and the contacts of the domain name). We can not deactivate and even less delete a domain name just because it is used in a spam: we can not and do not want to act as a judge.
There are many other gems on the registrar’s site, such as tidbits which says that if you get Spam from them, its a demonstration that their mail relays works and its a good thing. Right.
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