By Fyodor (fyodor@insecure.org)

This was originally posted by Fyodor to the nmap-hackers mailing list on Jan 25, 2007.

Hi everyone,

Many of you reported that our SecLists.Org security mailing list archive was down most of yesterday (Wed), and all you really need to know is that we’re back up and running! But I’m going into rant mode anyway in case you care for the details.

I woke up yesterday morning to find a voice message from my domain registrar (GoDaddy) saying they were suspending the domain SecLists.org. One minute later I received an email saying that SecLists.org has “been suspended for violation of the GoDaddy.com Abuse Policy”. And also “if the domain name(s) listed above are private, your Domains By Proxy(R) account has also been suspended.” WTF??! Neither the email nor voicemail gave a phone number to reach them at, nor did they feel it was worth the effort to explain what the supposed violation was. They changed my domain nameserver to “NS1.SUSPENDED-FOR.SPAM-AND-ABUSE.COM”. Cute, eh?

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