The Pakistan based El Mednifico Journal spammed us from 192.227.166.62 and promptly got listed, along with mediscene.co and mednifico.com. Dr Beall lists this on his backlog of items to be evaluated, but nothing further yet.
X-Received: from mediscene.co (mediscene.co [192.227.166.62]) by x (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id x for <x>; Sat, 20 Sep 2014 hh:mm:ss +0000 X-Received: from www.mednifico.com (lightfoot.dreamhost.com [173.236.184.116]) by mediscene.co (Postfix) with ESMTPA id C7E2F23A01CB for <x>; Sat, 20 Sep 2014 hh:mm:ss +0400 (MSD) From: Editorial EMJ <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: EMJ Call for papers: Open Access with no processing charges
Domain registrations: #1 in the Colombian ccTLD (nicely in line with the fake Spanish name, eh?) and anonymized, of course
$ whois mediscene.co Domain Name: MEDISCENE.CO Domain ID: D51936075-CO Sponsoring Registrar: ENOM, INC. Sponsoring Registrar IANA ID: 48 Registrar URL (registration services): www.enom.com Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited Registrant ID: 4C717DAEE5C04FB5 Registrant Name: mediscene.co Private Registrant Registrant Organization: A Happy DreamHost Customer Registrant Address1: 417 Associated Rd #324 Registrant City: Brea Registrant State/Province: CA Registrant Postal Code: 92821 Registrant Country: United States Registrant Country Code: US Registrant Phone Number: +1.7147064182 Registrant Email: [email protected] ... Name Server: NS1.DREAMHOST.COM Name Server: NS2.DREAMHOST.COM Name Server: NS3.DREAMHOST.COM Created by Registrar: ENOM, INC. Last Updated by Registrar: ENOM, INC. Domain Registration Date: Fri Nov 29 08:57:30 GMT 2013 Domain Expiration Date: Fri Nov 28 23:59:59 GMT 2014 Domain Last Updated Date: Fri Nov 29 08:57:31 GMT 2013
#2 (the payload)
[whois.enom.com] Domain Name: MEDNIFICO.COM Registry Domain ID: 1726750443_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.enom.com Registrar URL: www.enom.com Updated Date: 2014-05-11 21:57:15Z Creation Date: 2012-06-12 03:05:00Z Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2015-06-12 03:05:13Z Registrar: ENOM, INC. Registrar IANA ID: 48 Registrar Abuse Contact Email: [email protected] Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.4252744500 Reseller: NAMECHEAP.COM Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited Registry Registrant ID: Registrant Name: WHOISGUARD PROTECTED Registrant Organization: WHOISGUARD, INC. Registrant Street: P.O. BOX 0823-03411 Registrant City: PANAMA Registrant State/Province: PANAMA Registrant Postal Code: NA Registrant Country: PA Registrant Phone: +507.8365503 Registrant Phone Ext: Registrant Fax: +51.17057182 Registrant Fax Ext: Registrant Email: [email protected] Registry Admin ID: ... Name Server: NS1.DREAMHOST.COM Name Server: NS2.DREAMHOST.COM Name Server: NS3.DREAMHOST.COM