Tag: web listings
No form of media is safe from my simple minded attempts at humor.
by schwim on Jan.24, 2009, under Spam
Years ago, if you dealt with domain names in any way, your snail mailbox probably saw one of these pieces of mail at least once every couple of months.
Scamming pieces of shit would send out mail to publicly available registered owners of domains with what looked like a legitimate renewal bill for their domain. You would pay them money and your domain wouldn’t get renewed.
Because, you know… they weren’t really your registrar.
They were scamming pieces of shit. We had already established this. Try to stick with me, mkay?
Well, the long, atrophied arm of the law came down on them and they got in big trouble for doing that. The number of mails received went down drastically.
But the allure of an easy buck was just sitting there. They didn’t want to do fake renewals any longer, since it was already skylined and therefore subject to the law of diminished returns, but they knew that there was some way to continue on in the same tradition.
Enter these geniuses:
