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    Why not just send an email to every website?

    I could probably try to automate that, but to what email address? I’d have to hit a selection of common ones, info@, support@, abuse@, maybe others?

    I’d use “webmaster@”, which is a pretty long-running convention, though I don’t know how many people have it set up. I don’t know if there’s an RFC backing that.

    If you’re going to provide a standard contact admin email for a website, that’s where I’d expect it to be, at any rate.

    EDIT:

    Yeah, webmaster@; RFC 2142.

    https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2142/

    RFC 2142: Mailbox Names for Common Services, Roles and Functions

    Various Internet documents have specified mailbox names to be used
    when reaching the operators of the new service; for example, [RFC822
    6.3, C.6] requires the presence of a <POSTMASTER@domain> mailbox name
    on all hosts that have an SMTP server.  Other protocols have defacto
    standards for well known mailbox names, such as <USENET@domain> for
    NNTP (see [RFC977]), and <WEBMASTER@domain> for HTTP (see [HTTP]).
    Defacto standards also exist for well known mailbox names which have
    nothing to do with a particular protocol, e.g., <ABUSE@domain> and
    <TROUBLE@domain>.
    
    The purpose of this memo is to aggregate and specify the basic set of
    mailbox names which organizations need to support.
    
    5.  SUPPORT MAILBOX NAMES FOR SPECIFIC INTERNET SERVICES
    
    For major Internet protocol services, there is a mailbox defined for
    receiving queries and reports.  (Synonyms are included, here, due to
    their extensive installed base.)
    
    MAILBOX        SERVICE             SPECIFICATIONS
    -----------    ----------------    ---------------------------
    POSTMASTER     SMTP                [RFC821], [RFC822]
    HOSTMASTER     DNS                 [RFC1033-RFC1035]
    USENET         NNTP                [RFC977]
    NEWS           NNTP                Synonym for USENET
    WEBMASTER      HTTP                [RFC 2068]
    WWW            HTTP                Synonym for WEBMASTER
    UUCP           UUCP                [RFC976]
    FTP            FTP                 [RFC959]