Fleck.com and SPAM

A few months ago we started looking for a good name for our project and found out that all the good names were gone. Well, not really gone but taken. That meant we had to buy our name instead of just register it. At first we tried to come up with a name that nobody had come up with before. But none were as good as the ones we could buy second hand. So after a while we decided to buy Fleck.com.

One of the good side effects about the domain was that it was registered a few years ago so wasn’t a completely new domainname. And since Google treats older domainnames better than newer domainnames this is also something to consider. But there was another side effect we didn’t think about when we bought the domain: SPAM.

Our domainname was out there for years and apparently ended up in several spam databases. As soon as we transferred the domainname to our name and set up our emailaddresses (with a CatchAll account pointing to MY personal account) the SPAM started streaming in. Up to 100 spam messages a day!

After 4 days I disabled the CatchAll account and that was the end of all that SPAM. It was a minor problem but still, I wonder what other side effects our new name will show in the future and hope the rest will be good ones…