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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: [eweek article] Window of "anonymity" when domain exists, whois not updated yet
On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 10:14:35AM +0000, [email protected] wrote: > > But as article specifically mentions sending during the night and > > registration next morning that does seem to indicate eweek found out > > about "no whois" but with already registered domain, i.e. see > Could they simply be referring to the technique of > sending spam at night with a URL to a non-existent > domain? When everyone's NOC sees the spam for the first > time and tries to get the website shut down, it's not there. > Tickets are closed, and many people think someone else > already had the site taken down. I was always interested to see how many people are actually falling for these Spam messages. Did anybody here ever try to register such a domain, after the mass mailing started but before the spammer registers it? Just put a dummy page there and then throw the access.log into a bunch of loganalyzers after a few days. Nils
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