Some More Questions For Chris Lawell

Chris, up until Friday, the SOA records for the scam sites all listed the email address for their DNS zone administrator as finishlinehosting@cli-us.com. But on Friday, the day that you responded to the allegations made against you, the SOA records for all of these sites except finishlinehosting.com were deleted. Could you explain how that happened?

You can view the DNS records by visiting

http://who.is/nameserver/ns1.finishlinehosting.com/

and clicking on the DNS links in the More Information column in the table.

Also, it is very important to note that we are discussing SOA records here, not registration information. You say in your letter that anyone can use any email address when registering a domain. True, you can pick any fake email address for the registration information and if the registrar or hosting service doesn't bother to check it out, then it will end up going into the registration databases. But we're not talking about registration data here, we're talking about SOA records. These are records that are created by the administrators of DNS servers. You can't fake this data unless you have access to the DNS server in question. The DNS server would in this case most likely have been controlled by a hosting company or the ISP Ecatel. It appears that it was controlled by Finishline Hosting (which looks like a pretend hosting company), which means that it would have been involved in the scam, too. Again, what do you know about Finishline Hosting?

Regarding this:

The only thing I am guilty of is being naive 3 years ago and writing about posting on CL as an attempt at article marketing.

Article marketing, that's all? So you weren't obviously instructing people on how to spam Craigslist?

Craigslist can be tricky to post multiple ads in one day so here are some easy tips to post successfully on Craigslist.


First, it takes a lot of ads posted daily to list build fast.


You should post a minimum of 30-50 a day.


Here is how to post a lot of ads...


You need a way to change your IP address (your connection to the internet that determines where you are located).


You need a lot of subdomains that are setup to forward to your website(s).


You need a lot of email addresses (I use Gmail.com)


I have found that you can post about 10-15 ads with the same IP, email address and subdomain.


Do more than that, and you run the risk of all your ads being deleted.


That is why I use this submission software... CL Autoposter

Using multiple email addresses and multiple IP addresses to avoid having your numerous ads flagged and using automated ad submission software that helps you change your identity, those are tricks to avoid having your spam flagged.