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Preventing Domain Name Spam What exactly is domain name spam? This is when an email spammer doesn't harvest email addresses on the internet, searching for any and all email addresses on a webpage. Instead, they get a domain name - yoursite.com and send emails to all the obvious (and the not-so-obvious) possible email addresses that webmasters commonly set up when running a site. Some of the most commonly used include:
Instead, use less commonly used prefixes for your email addresses. Instead of "info@yoursite.com" use "askaquestion@yoursite.com". Instead of "webmaster@yoursite.com" use "yourname@yoursite.com". Instead of "help@yoursite.com" use "problem@yoursite.com". You do want to still keep your email addresses professional and to make sense to your customers. egfahwge@yoursite.com will fool domain name spammers, but customers will wonder what is going on when they see that in the "To" field of their email. Also, don't forget that many domain name spammers hope you have your catch-all turned on. This means that even sending an email to egfahwge@yoursite.com will end up in your email, even if you do not have that email address set up. Unless you have a need for your catch-all to be turned on, you should have it turned off by default. |
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