OK, enough is enough. We've all had a spammer or spam site sign up, and we've all (presumably) kicked them off. Why are you referencing data from some spam posting over 4 years old?
Because, as I showed you, Elan is still hosting their domains.
If William would take some action and clean up the spammers on his network, I wouldn't need to post about it. There are no spammers on the network. Anybody who tries to spam, gets removed according to our policies, usually within first 24 hours, sometimes if longer investigations are necessary and they try to "fight" it, then within 7 days or within 30 days depending on what circumstances are. Only one case (and it did not involve mass emailing) has ever survived over 30 days and to get rid of him, the change of AUP was necessary but
Lets be clear about something - having our nameserver listed as one of dns servers for domain, does not mean we're hosting it. There are LOTs of domains which use our dns servers (in fact couple people at nanog receive free secondary dns from elan), there are also number of domains for which we're listed but we do not provide dns services any more (I can't really force somebody to remove our dns server from their domain whois, I can ask, but they may refuse or do not answer at all - if this is a problem, then I set our dns server to do reply as "NXDOMAIN", which may get their attention; but 99% of the time, the domain that was in dns server but is no more, simply has its records and configs purged from our dns server - that however means that our server may still answer queries about it in a normal caching mode, i.e. by getting data from the first listed primary dns and caching it on the fly without using any local configuration). If you have problem with any PARTICULAR domain, send email to abuse@elan.net and clearly indicate what the problem is - you will receive a reply (within 72 hours if email is directly from user and not from automated system). If the email is ccd to newsgroup (if you want to make it public), there will be reply to that newsgroup, but be particular about each and every case separately, don't just list bunch of domains (i.e. those with elan.net and with with "-" that you sorted out of .com/.net root dns zone file). For others, please note that I already told all this before to Michael or else somebody who I'm certain he knows. this was all several years ago anyway. And all those google references provided from 2-4 years ago are for companies that were not even direct customers but customers of a customers, none are hosted on the network for long long time (several years).
Another item of note is the phone number in ELAN.NET domain registration is invalid. William is in breach of his registration agreement, and liable to lose his domain name unless he corrects this. There are known ICANN approved ways to report invalid registration data. Otherwise we'll correct any wrong data on the next domain annvessary or when domain registrar sends a notice (as they should at least once/year) to check if data is correct.
P.S. This will be the last time I answer this kind of allegations on the list. All these allegations are baseless as others in fact already said as well are simply harrassment because you have problem that I'm listing ip blocks you hijacked (or somebody you know based on the company you associate with) and posted data about in public as well as references to what you did. Well, if you yourself want to answer those problems, feel free to do so on any public list (preferably not nanog, but who am I to stop you...). I'll reference those posting to on the webpage for wdh/starlan so others could see your own view on what happened and how you're connected to mailcourier, etc. For reference about why this is happening, please see: http://www.completewhois.com/hijacked/gang_wdh.htm -- William Leibzon Elan Networks william@elan.net