You’ll thank yourself later.

Add the followings to your host file and you’ll thank yourself later.

127.0.0.1       gizmodo.com
127.0.0.1       www.gizmodo.com
127.0.0.1       api.gawker.com
127.0.0.1       cache.gawkerassets.com
127.0.0.1       cache.gizmodo.com
127.0.0.1       fonts.gawker.com
127.0.0.1       ganja.gawkerassets.com
127.0.0.1       img.gawkerassets.com

Header for the host file:

##
# Host Database
#
# localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
# when the system is booting.  Do not change this entry.
##
127.0.0.1       localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
::1             localhost
fe80::1%lo0     localhost

fe80::1%lo0     localhost

Dont know what a hosts file is?
Wikipedia has a page for it.

No more accidentally clicking on links to garbage posts on this particular site.

Spammer Alert: superdooperdeals.com

Readers sent us a few info about new round of spam from superdooperdeals.com. Do not give them your email addresses with hope you’d be unsubscribed from their spam bombardments. superdooperdeals.com site includes some fake testimonials that don’t even make any sense.

Whois info on superdooperdeals.com:

Registration Service Provided By: Namecheap.com
Contact: support@namecheap.com
Visit: http://namecheap.com

Domain name: Superdooperdeals.com

Registrant Contact:
SuperDooperDeals
Liam Carroll ()

Fax:
15500 SW Jay Street #38743
Beaverton, OR 97006
US

Administrative Contact:
SuperDooperDeals
Liam Carroll (liam@superdooperdeals.com)
+1.5033038404
Fax: +1.5555555555
15500 SW Jay Street #38743
Beaverton, OR 97006
US

Technical Contact:
SuperDooperDeals
Liam Carroll (liam@superdooperdeals.com)
+1.5033038404
Fax: +1.5555555555
15500 SW Jay Street #38743
Beaverton, OR 97006
US

Status: Locked

Name Servers:
ns1.superdooperdeals.com
ns2.superdooperdeals.com

Creation date: 23 Mar 2011 03:15:00
Expiration date: 22 Mar 2012 22:15:00

Other Domain Registered by superdooperdeals.com:

  • bingolikey.com
  • carz-online.com
  • luxuryhosting.net
  • yourkeywords.net
  • we-mean-business.org
  • playwithusdaily.com

We will add more info whenever we get them.

eNom and namecheap are the DNS Registrar that superdooperdeal.com uses, but they are willing to resolve the issue.

This is a sample of namecheap.com reply to the complaints:

Hello,

Thank you for your email regarding researchsneeze.info domain name. The domain that you reported is registered with NameCheap but hosted with another company. Please contact the hosting company for help with investigating the incident of spam. You will need to forward entire email with full headers to them. Here are contact details of the company that owns IP address assigned to the domain:

http://who.is/whois-ip/108.60.156.10/
——————–
Regards,
Marta K.
Customer Support

http://whois.arin.net/rest/nets;q=108.60.156.10?showDetails=true&showARIN=false

Other good and responsible DNS Registrars would take the complaints seriously and actually do something to disable the offending domains.

File complaints to FTC: https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/FTC_Wizard.aspx?Lang=en for the violation of CAN-SPAM Act.

One Spammer Down, Many More To Go: exectsided.net

Thanks to everyone who took their time contacting moniker.net and filing complaints to FTC. It seems that exectsided.net domain has been taken down by Moniker.com Domain Name Registrar. One down, and many more to go.

If you’re getting a lot of spam emails from a particular domain name, you should find out its domain registrar and contact them. Next you file complaints to FTC.