More spam over the transom today, this time flogging the new .biz domain space and yet another company offering to register it for me, as if I couldn’t do it myself for nine bucks.

So I do whatever I do when I get spam, which is to open up the Internet email headers, track down their Internet service providers, and let them know which of their users is violating Terms of Service and must be instantly eradicated. Copies go off to the FTC for good measure, who occasionally bring out the big guns.

So I’m doing that for these new guys, tracking down their domain, when I come across this tidbit in the WHOIS database:

dotbiztoday.com
Request: dotbiztoday.com
Internet Domain Registrars WHOIS Server v.1.5
Registrant:
Dot Biz Today
   629 - 465 NE 181st Avenue
   Portland, Or 97230
   US
   (PH) 670-3611
   Registration Date:   11-Sep-2001 14:03:28
   Expiration Date: 11-Sep-2002 11:03:27

These guys are on the West Coast, as is their registrar (I checked), so at somewhere between 2:03 PM and 5:03 PM Eastern Time on September 11th, these guys were busily working on setting their new spamming business.

Now maybe you’re thinking, “hey, maybe they just hadn’t heard yet,” to which I remind you, these people were on the Internet.

You’ve got to be a pretty feculent life form to send spam, but these guys took it to a whole new level.