Whoa. :) I was reading this, formulating a response in my mind and hoping I could say it in a "hey I don't comment much but this is technical so if you don't mind advice" way, and then, you asked me?? :)
My advice is to shut off the domain for a month or two. Kill all access to it. Some emails will get through, and they'll hit your old host as "last known." They'll have to deal. Spammers have rudimentary programs which delete undeliverable addresses from their lists. If they didn't, their lists would just grow and grow and get more out of date. They are business people, despite their subhuman status. If your domain starts returning bounces, most will remove it.
Do you have access to DNS settings? Can you set it to something fake, like 127.0.0.1? It'll make the domain inaccessible. Some domain handlers will let you simply set all mail to 'reject'. What you want to do is bounce as much email as possible for a month.
After that, open it back up again. It may never leave all lists, but 1M a day is insane. :) Even I have never achieved that. The older the domain, the more lists you're on.
Hope that helps.. I'd be happy to host your domain if you need a place because of this host not supporting you.. though, I will say, if spam to it slogs the server I might need to dump it too. You gotta maintain services, you know. :) But as a temp DNS, I'm perfectly willing.
Honestly, Gmail isn't such a bad option as a DNS port. They're opening a new domain forwarding system which is relatively transparent and gives you the benefit of their bazillion-server capabilities. Pretty much like they kicked ass in every other basic net need this year.
I could type for another hour about this but had better not. This is LJ, after all. :) If I can help, please let me know. Basic advice: cut the domain off from receiving input for at least a month. It can only help.
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Date: 2006-09-21 08:59 am (UTC)My advice is to shut off the domain for a month or two. Kill all access to it. Some emails will get through, and they'll hit your old host as "last known." They'll have to deal. Spammers have rudimentary programs which delete undeliverable addresses from their lists. If they didn't, their lists would just grow and grow and get more out of date. They are business people, despite their subhuman status. If your domain starts returning bounces, most will remove it.
Do you have access to DNS settings? Can you set it to something fake, like 127.0.0.1? It'll make the domain inaccessible. Some domain handlers will let you simply set all mail to 'reject'. What you want to do is bounce as much email as possible for a month.
After that, open it back up again. It may never leave all lists, but 1M a day is insane. :) Even I have never achieved that. The older the domain, the more lists you're on.
Hope that helps.. I'd be happy to host your domain if you need a place because of this host not supporting you.. though, I will say, if spam to it slogs the server I might need to dump it too. You gotta maintain services, you know. :) But as a temp DNS, I'm perfectly willing.
Honestly, Gmail isn't such a bad option as a DNS port. They're opening a new domain forwarding system which is relatively transparent and gives you the benefit of their bazillion-server capabilities. Pretty much like they kicked ass in every other basic net need this year.
I could type for another hour about this but had better not. This is LJ, after all. :) If I can help, please let me know. Basic advice: cut the domain off from receiving input for at least a month. It can only help.