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Re: Spammers Skirt IP Authentication Attempts

  • From: Richard Cox
  • Date: Wed Sep 08 10:07:11 2004

On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 13:52:59 +0100 <[email protected]> asked:

> I see that 56trf5.com is a real domain. Does this mean that the domain
> name registries and DNS are now being polluted with piles of garbage
> entries in the same way that Google searches have been polluted with
> tons of pages full of nothing but search keywords and ads?

Yes.  Hadn't you noticed?

Statistically speaking there are now more domains with fake contact
records than there are with genuine contact records, and certain
registrars have been allowing new domains to be registered using
contact addresses that have previously been proved to be bogus.

-- 
Richard Cox