Hello everyone,

Last night I got a new hosting customer. Everything was set up perfectly but there is one problem. His/her domain has viagra in it.

They are based in the US and have a state in their domain. I did an IP check and it clarifies this.

I spoke to the company I lease the servers from and they said there are no problems yet and I should wait to see what they put on the site. Of course if they put something illegal on their site I’m guessing I will need to email them letting them know this is a problem.

I’m sure many of you have come across this before so I’m wondering what you would do in this situation.

Thanks very much everyone!

Any advice would be great guys. Any opinions/advice will be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Hello,

Simply make sure they are not violating your terms of service. You could ask the new client to provide notification when the site goes live so you can assure it agrees with your current AUP and/or TOS.

Good Luck!

Hello,

Simply make sure they are not violating your terms of service. You could ask the new client to provide notification when the site goes live so you can assure it agrees with your current AUP and/or TOS.

Good Luck!

Thank you very much for your advice. I will certainly go ahead and do that now.

faced the "illegal content" portion too many times - just give them some notice and allow them to take the content down. If they don't in a reasonable about of time, then suspend/remove the site.

If it's a phishing site or something providing viruses to the net, then I wouldn't even bother contacting them first, I'll do that after removing the account because the longer these types of sites stay on the net, the faster your IP may get blackholed by the provider. I've had that happen twice in the past year, really annoying.

But I'm sure the "viagra" people won't do anything too horrible like go phishing. Just keep an eye on it for a while.

faced the "illegal content" portion too many times - just give them some notice and allow them to take the content down. If they don't in a reasonable about of time, then suspend/remove the site.

If it's a phishing site or something providing viruses to the net, then I wouldn't even bother contacting them first, I'll do that after removing the account because the longer these types of sites stay on the net, the faster your IP may get blackholed by the provider. I've had that happen twice in the past year, really annoying.

But I'm sure the "viagra" people won't do anything too horrible like go phishing. Just keep an eye on it for a while.

Great, thanks very much!

Thanks to both of you for your advice. Really helped.

Viagra is a great and legal drug... isn't it?
I would be more worried about them using the account for spam, however with the word in the domain its going too be blocked just about everywhere anyways.

Good luck!