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by ChrisMarshallNY 1211 days ago
Funny story.

I have three domains (.com, .org, and .net) of my [first initial][last name][.tld]. Have had them for a long time.

A defense law firm in Australia, set up a domain, with [first initial][last name].com.au

I used to get regular emails, with terrifyingly personal stuff in them. Many of these emails came from Australian government/court orgs. They probably could have been sued into the mantle for some of the stuff (like juvenile criminal proceedings), that got sent to some random Yank in New York.

I was always careful to forward everything I got to the lawyers, along with contacting the courts, and letting them know their mistake.

In a couple of instances, I was thanked. In most, I was ignored.

No one ever tried the barratry route with me. I actually probably would have sold them my domains at cost, if they had asked, but they never did.

I haven't gotten one of those emails in years. I have no idea why.

1 comments

Why not have one or two mail accounts on the domain and reject or bounce everything else?
I generally like to have the catchalls come to me. If they get spamjacked, then I'll block them. Has not been a problem, to date.

These weren't frequent, so it wasn't a big deal, and I didn't want these to get lost, as they were of critical importance to the people they concerned (like life/death jail/free stuff).