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Re: [Fwd: Important ICANN Notice Regarding Your Domain Name(s)]

  • From: Steve Sobol
  • Date: Thu Oct 05 14:23:44 2006 
On Thu, 5 Oct 2006, Steve Sobol wrote:

> On Thu, 5 Oct 2006, Alexander Harrowell wrote:
> 
> > Are you sure it's genuine? Those WWD domains (especially
> > secureserver.net) account for a large fraction of the spam and
> > phishing attempts I receive.
> 
> SecureServer.net is GoDaddy.
> 
> If you have domains hosted at GoDaddy or a reseller, your customer 
> notifications come from that domain.

Following up to myself: I understand that you can still get phishes 
purporting to be from them. But if you can verify that the message came 
from secureserver, don't write it off as a phish without doing some 
further checking.

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