david_uk - 9:06 am on May 29, 2006 (gmt 0)

My comment above isn't entirely baseless.

My main site's account has been in my wife's name to use her tax allowance for a couple of years now, and I have my own account for tinkering around on new ideas. I haven't used it for a while. I wanted to re-activate it a couple of weeks back, and emailed adsense support as I couldn't log in on the account I thought I had registered in. Support told me that I couldn't use my adwords account to log in on - use a different email address and sign up again. I did this, and included the new site's address.

A couple of days later support emailed me to say something along the lines of "Oi - you signed up under ...@...co.uk, use that address to sign in on dingbat". In the two days it took them to process the application, there were two WHOIS lookups showing in the log files.

Now, I'm only assuming that the lookup was adsense support - I don't know this for a fact. However, if you were Adsense, wouldn't you perform this simple check?