Comments on: Host Monster/Blue Host Spamming

By: Watch Year One Online Free

Watch Year One Online Free — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 19:51:50 +0000

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By: FreshAvails

FreshAvails — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 18:10:12 +0000

Fair enough Chris. But this is still considered spam. Unsolicited/requested Mass emails from a company I have never done business with or provided an email address to. The SERVICE you refer to is simply harvesting public whois data and using that for an unsolicited sales pitch. That is against the law!

(CAN-SPAM Act of 2003)
*It bans false or misleading header information. Your email’s “From,” “To,” and routing information – including the originating domain name and email address – must be accurate and identify the person who initiated the email.
*Use scripts or other automated ways to register for multiple email or user accounts to send commercial email

I was really just commenting that it was slimy that they used a fear message and had a deceptive tone in terms of it’s content. (Your services with Host Monster will not work–where not services existed.

FYI. I also notice that someone must have read this posting (Is it you chris?:) Do you work for Host Monster/Blue Host?…because the date was corrected on their homepage. Cheers.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 15:51:31 +0000

I think you are over-reacting. We have one account with hostmonster and as you say they state that the domiain is “registered with “A different registrar,” not HostMonster and would need to contact them.”

They may offer to transfer the domain to them, and I would not do that because I don’t like having the domain at the same place that I host my site. But they are the only host I know of that provides this SERVICE. That’s right, I consider it a service to have them warn me about domains that are expiring.

You see, often times people will register a domain and later change email addresses and forget to update the information on their domain. Later, they may not get the renewal emails and if the domain expires, they could have their site and email stop working just as that email said. Then if they don’t realize that, they could also lose the domain.

I hate Phishing and spam, but in my opinion, these messages from hostmonster are neither and are a service that I wish more hosting providers would offer their customers. Of course, I do think you should be able to turn it off if you don’t want these notifications, but I have not even looked to see if that is possible.

I hope this clears up any misunderstanding about those emails.