Afrihost selling my info?

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I have been a happy Afrihost client, until their adsl service became unusable a few weeks ago and today I received spam from a web developer after I registered a new domain via them last week. This is not on. I already cancelled my data, only my hosting and line remains with them, and I will definately cancel it all if I receive another email which I didnt ask for!

Are they selling my info or giving it away? I have registered many domains before via different providers and this is the first time I'm spammed...
 
How do you know its Afrihost? Just because you received the email shortly after registering a new domain doesn't prove anything....unless you didn't use that email addr anywhere else.

Spam lists get stored & resold & reused, so the timing is often pretty random.
 
It's a forwarding domain with no email addresses, received the email on my main account address...?
 
Have you checked the domain at co.za/whois?
If your main email is there, then possibly that web dev has a way of monitoring new co.za registrations (very sneaky - but strangely opportunistic).

If not, they yeah, your assumption may be correct, and that's BS.
 
You can ask the spammer where he got your info from, if he doesnt provide it you can take legal action.

Else just add the moron to your spam list
 
Yea, maybe he monitors the whois info on new registrations. I sent him a friendly request not to mail me again.
 
If I may ask, why did you register the domain with an ISP?
I once registered a domain with [company x]. A while later their DNS server stopped working (or they killed my records?) so my mail stopped working. After fighting with them about it I eventually gave up and decided to just move the domain. They wouldn't accept the transfer. They would not let me domain go - and there was no legal fallback because technically they owned it.

I eventually just started using a different domain. By checking whois every now and then I saw that they continued to pay for the domain (essentially not allowing me to get it back) for about 4 years.

Point is, it's MUCH safer to just register it yourself - plus it's cheaper (unless subsidized) - and you don't need to deal with ISP's crappy wait times with support to change stuff. You can deal with coza directly.


It's very easy to register your own domain. First, find a free DNS provider. My favorites are https://freedns.afraid.org/ and http://www.namecheap.com/products/freedns.aspx (latter being better). Add your (unregistered) domain to that DNS. Then wait a few hours (for it to propagate properly)

Then copy paste this: http://co.za/coza_reg.txt into a plaintext email and fill out the fields. You can get the right DNS records from your DNS account. You can use this: http://co.za/cgi-bin/whois.sh?Domain=afrihost&Enter=Enter as a guide on what the fields want.
Finally email that to [email protected]. You should get a reply almost instantly saying it's now registered, and then it will be active in a few hours.

You can pay for the domain afterwards via credit card or EFT. It's R50 per year.

If you get hosting later you can just point your free DNS records to that hosting server.
 
You can pay for the domain afterwards via credit card or EFT. It's R50 per year.

that is being changed. no domain will be delegated to the zone unless its paid for..

quite a bit of changes ahead for COZA this year. see below.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 08:57:19 +0200
From: Calvin Browne <
To: IOZ <[email protected]>
Subject: [IOZ] Reminder: COZA Legacy Policy changes

Hi all,

All the best for 2013.

Just a quick reminder about the legacy policy changes outlined at
https://www.registry.net.za/policyrollout/#LEGACYREGISTRAR .

These include a price increase, as well as other policies around billing.

Sincerely

--The COZA Team


https://www.registry.net.za/policyrollout/#LEGACYREGISTRAR
---------- End Forwarded message ----------
 
@treebsd, thanks, didn't know that!

But basically, it just means after registration is complete you pay for it before it will work. So it doesn't really change what you should do anyway.
 
@secundaweather spammers often use dictionaries of <variable>@<variable>.<tld> to pump out spam, another way spam may get to you.
 
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