Rather than answering the phone (since I don’t know anyone who would be calling my cell-phone from a toll-free number), I managed to Google it and find this page while the phone was still ringing.

I answered with “What?”

He responded with something about being from a domain registry, and before he could finish I said “I don’t have a fax machine.”

He seemed a bit taken aback by me knowing what he was going to ask.

Then I said, “Now, how ’bout you tell me who you are and what your address is?” and he promptly hung up. Hasn’t called back either.

Anyways, I kept asking him why he needed my fax number, he sounded very frustrated, then he started saying he was domain registration support. I asked him what company he was with, he just kept repeating domain registration…. when I said I don’t use that company, he hung up

I called back of course (smile), several times, but as previous bloggers mention, you just get a disconnect upon intersception. We probably should report this so they can trace it. It sounds like a dirty rat. Why a fax number, what good would that do anybody, unless one person said, they want to spam your fax, but many states have laws against that.

I to am on the do-not-call list. I’m going to keep calling it as much as I can, maybe we can over ride the system or bog it down.

I note that tonight it is no longer answering at the Indian shop.
Here is a list of all calls from 800 Service numbers with an
indication of what I get tonight.

20-FEB-2003 17:09:22.48 Fax 800 379-8414 Reorder
25-SEP-2003 12:03:19.21 Ln1 800 839-5031 DME Telephony Services
26-SEP-2003 19:24:02.84 Ln1 800 839-5031
18-FEB-2004 12:17:26.73 Ln2 866 383-0986 Mystery Phone Number
26-JUN-2004 20:08:56.06 Fax 866 383-0986
14-JUL-2004 19:33:44.81 Ln1 866 383-0986
15-SEP-2004 09:32:00.97 Ln2 800 497-9512 Direct Satellite
15-SEP-2004 10:34:14.52 Fax 800 497-9512
25-OCT-2004 13:55:57.43 Ln3 800 290-7432 AOL
26-OCT-2004 15:21:32.32 Ln3 800 290-7432
27-OCT-2004 15:31:22.90 Ln3 800 290-7432
28-OCT-2004 12:11:19.90 Ln3 800 290-7432
8-NOV-2004 11:59:56.68 Fax 800 682-0393 “Customer Service”

None of the calls to the Fax number were faxes. Here is the fax log
for those calls:

http://www.bbbonline.org/profile.asp?ID=104082613531046205

Make sure to mention “Domain Support Group” etc.. when complaining.

2701: General Mailbox — appears to have no limit on the size of messages, I read a 4 page CIO Decisions article into the mailbox and was able to review the entire article (#1 to review your message before saving, 8 will save as an urgent message … My CIO Decisions article was urgent.)

Address verification office …

Dave Sawyer: x2601, part of the support office. This is one of the people that you get transferred to after you say you want to order some *.us. Says they are actually itsyourdomain.com or IYD and they are one of the processors approved by ICANN to handle the “first offers” to .com holders. You can contact Dave: supportagent@domainsupportgroup.com.

…

You too can hack their phone structure: Just call and press “0″ to be transferred to the operator and then type in random numbers starting with 26 or 27. … Next, act very confused.

Johnathan @ Extension 2704 appears to be a supervisor and will hang up pretty quickly

Arron @ extention 2706 appears to be in tech support - he likes wine and was busy defragging a hard drive and removing spyware from a machine when I called. (Nice to hear telemarketers hate spyware too)

Let’s build a directory!!

http://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/whois.asp

you can find the owner info (from the whois database). This is nothing new, but I did note the info at the top of the page:

The data contained in Go Daddy Software, Inc.’s WHOIS database,
while believed by the company to be reliable, is provided “as is”
with no guarantee or warranties regarding its accuracy. This
information is provided for the sole purpose of assisting you
in obtaining information about domain name registration records.
Any use of this data for any other purpose is expressly forbidden without the prior written permission of Go Daddy Software, Inc. By submitting an inquiry, you agree to these terms of usage and limitations of warranty. In particular, you agree not to use this data to allow, enable, or otherwise make possible, dissemination or collection of this data, in part or in its entirety, for any purpose, such as the transmission of unsolicited advertising and solicitations of any kind, including spam. You further agree
not to use this data to enable high volume, automated or robotic electronic
processes designed to collect or compile this data for any purpose,
including mining this data for your own personal or commercial purposes.

1-866-383-0986

Unfortunately because my number was listed with both registrars at one time I can’t pin it on one of the other….