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Credit Card Companies Spam Domain Owners

21 Dec, 2006 Credit, Customer Service

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No longer able to send me credit card offers because I long ago opted out of receiving pre-screened credit card offers — which I suggest doing for everyone except those of you who enjoy playing with those snakes and earning a little by playing the credit arbitrage game — the credit card companies have found a new means of getting their offers in front of me.

Today I received three business card offers from different companies sent to Owner - aka me - of a couple domains I’ve recently registered (one of my little addictions is a small herd of domain names that I tend). Along with a scattering of similar offers over the last couple weeks. Mind you, these domains aren’t business entities in and of themselves (despite the fact that I intend to make a little cash with them). In fact, two of the three domains serve up nothing but a page of gibberish placeholder text right now.

And as far as my little brain can figure, there’s no way I can stop these from coming. To opt out, I need to provide my name, social security number, date of birth, ~~blood sample~~, etc. to the pre-screen opt-out site — ‘Owner, SomeRandomDomain.com‘ doesn’t have a social security number, date of birth, etc. to provide them. If you know of some way, I’d really appreciate it if you could please pass it on to me! But I think it’d be a pointless act anyway — every domain I register in the future will likely receive the same junk. And I don’t forsee me quitting the domain name collection addiction anytime soon.

And to think, I was enjoying not having to shred my mail daily…

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» credit card, domains, domain, registrar, registration, arbitrage

2 Comments so far »

jim said,

Wrote on December 21, 2006 @ 1:46 pm

That’s definitely a sneaky way of doing that… I get a lot of offers as a homeowner for refinancing and things. I just bought the place and already there are refinancing offers! Unbelievable.
Sean said,

Wrote on December 22, 2006 @ 4:22 pm

Yeah, I was truly amazed at the number of companies interested in doing business with us almost immediately after we closed on our home. I was pretty annoyed with it for quite a while.

That is, until I made a game of it: I’d collect the offers and, when I was bored, open up a few, remove any personally identifiable information, stuff their competition’s marketing material into any prepaid postage envelopes they sent along (and there always is a prepaid envelope), and drop it in the mail the next morning… I can’t say whether this game had anything to do with it, but I get very little refinancing / homeowner insurance / etc. junk mail anymore.