KnujOn Updates Top 10 Spam-Friendly Registrars List 80
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from the naming-and-shaming dept.
from the naming-and-shaming dept.
alphadogg writes "Some companies are more popular than others for spammers wanting to register their domain names. Spam-fighting organization KnujOn has updated its report on the top 10 registrars whose customers are linked to spam and other illicit activity. (We discussed the original report last year.) These 10 companies registered 83% of the domains spammed in KnujOn's sample of spam between June and January. KnujOn found that some companies have cleaned up their act in recent months and that others — most surprisingly, Network Solutions and GoDaddy sister company Wild West domains — have popped up on the list. At the top of KnujOn's list, for the second time in a row, is Xinnet.com, a Chinese registrar linked to more than 3 million spam messages. KnujOn recommends that ICANN threaten to pull Xinnet's accreditation, as it did for some of the offenders on the previous list."
Re:It's Not the Registrars, it's the System (Score:5, Informative)
Bug (Score:3, Informative)
Subscribers get to see articles before they are posted on the main site (but they can't comment on them till they go live). To make it obvious that these were stories that havn't gone live yet, they are displayed with a red title. At some point in the transition to the new firehose-integrated index page, this code was broken and now sometimes live stories will be displayed with the red title. It's been like this for months, however, it appears that the slashdot team would rather spend time ruining the profile pages than fixing bugs in the (otherwise promising) index page.
Re:We don't like you so pull their accreditation (Score:5, Informative)
You should probably take a look at the Google Message Security ROI calculator [google.com]. You might learn a thing.
Probably not two. That'd be too much to expect.
DON'T Protest KnujOn (Score:4, Informative)
In this case, some of these companies (Xin Net in particular) keep allowing the same spammers with the same obviously fake Whois info keep registering new domains. And Xin Net has suspended domains when KnujOn and others report them, and shortly afterwards, give them back to the same spammers.
Re:It's Not the Registrars, it's the System (Score:3, Informative)
It would be trivial to track purchasing behavior based on phone numbers, and this would force spammers to somehow get access to a new phone number each time... raising their cost somewhat.
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