Reglikedomain industry desk

Someone is SMS spamming Whois: Oh, great

Someone is SMS spamming Whois: Oh, great

I guess those emails the spammers send you following you register a domain name aren’t effective enough.

Don’t click the link, even out of curiosity. Your mobile phone number is appended to the URL, so they’ll know you got the message.

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