Re: R: New domains (was: URIWhois plugin)

Quoting Kenneth Porter <shiva@sewingwitch.com>:

> --On Thursday, September 27, 2007 7:05 PM +0200 Giampaolo Tomassoni
> <g.tomassoni@libero.it> wrote:
>
> > The only problem is that a spammer could "query" it days before it will
> > bulk send, thereby impairing the effectiveness of such approach.
> >
> > I think we need some "official" data like the domain's creation time: at
> > least, spammers will be mandated to buy domains a couple of month before
> > using them...
>
> I recall reading about a scam used by registrars to buy up large blocks of
> names, then cancel the purchase and incur no penalty, then buy them up
> again, over and over, to hold them off the market at no cost. How would you
> detect such a thing?

It's called domain tasting or domain kiting:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_tasting   http://www.bobparsons.com/DomainKiting.html

Jeff C. Received on Fri Sep 28 13:02:25 2007