Publicdomainregistry.com – a US company based in India in business with Phishers & Spammers

Well, what a “coincidence”!

After I sent an email to compliance@publicdomainregistry.com, the contact address of “Public Domain Registry”, I was informed by my email hoster that my account was attacked by unknown forces trying to hack it.

This is not just annoying but quite unusual since it was a boring email account that was only of interest for boring spammers like “Ruby Palace”. But hey, after I swore to PDR that I was going to be their personal pain in the ass until they end their business relationship with Ruby’s fucking gambling Palace all of a sudden that boring email is under attack?

Screenshot © 2014 by me, Kill Spammer

However, let’s take a closer look at PDR:

PDR’s registry information thru whois

Well, it seems that “PDR Ltd.” is a US company from Beaverton, Oregon. But hey, what’s the registrant’s name? Is it Ronald McDonald? Is it Hillary Obama or George W. Bush III. ?

No! It is Mr. “Domain Manager”!

And guess what? He lives at a nice place in Beaverton with a lot of parking space!

PDR’s address and “building”: 9450 SW Gemini Dr. #48732 Beaverton/Oregon

Maybe it’s a very poor company that resides in a tent that is just set up from 9 to 5 on Mondays to Fridays and can’t afford even a wooden hut. The US are in a recession as we all know. This may also explain why Mr. Manager’s phone number (+1.2013775952) has a different area code than his fax number (+1.3202105146). Since it is no cell phone number the landline must be sort of “mobile” …

Under these circumstances it is understandable that Mr. “Domain Manager” is in close business with that cheap Indian company “Directiplex”. I am sure “Directiplex” has a representative building in Mumbai though their address seems to be difficult to find following the detailed description by themselves:

PDR Ltd.’s partner Directiplex, seated “Next to Andheri Subway” in Mumbai/India.

Well, next time I am in Mumbai, I will surely pay Directiplex a visit and go “next to Andheri Subway”, finding the Old Nagardas Road in Andheri (East), Mumbai, Maharashtra 40006.

You know, somehow I don’t have a good feeling when I get in contact with a company that doesn’t disclose its employees nor their bosses name. I mean, just imagine you want to get in business with them and all contact persons have the name “Domain Manager” or “Mr. and Mrs. Doe” – even “Mr. Smith” sounds more serious that no name at all.

And then you see that their company building is somewhere in the woods on plain grass – but with a lot of space for parking – and the unknown American CEO delegates all work to an Indian company that also doesn’t seem to have people with real names. (Maybe they just let androids do the work?)

And then you discover that this company has customers like “Ruby Palace”, a famous SPAMMER that is working with software for gambling you have to download and install from unknown sources (Watch out for phishing attacks and trojan horses!) …

Would you really have a good feeling paying even one Dollar to that kind of company?