Comments on: Domain Name Nirvana and Damn Spam http://www.whirlycott.com/phil/2004/11/23/domain-name-nirvana-and-damn-spam/ Philip Jacob's web page Mon, 14 Jun 2010 19:49:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Philip Jacob http://www.whirlycott.com/phil/2004/11/23/domain-name-nirvana-and-damn-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-28864 Philip Jacob Fri, 15 Jun 2007 14:22:02 +0000 http://www.whirlycott.com/phil/?p=21#comment-28864 Actually, in retrospect, I can guess what happened. I probably put up a post on the blog and it pinged Technorati, Pingomatic or some such service. A spammer must have intercepted it there and started the onslaught of blogspam. Actually, in retrospect, I can guess what happened. I probably put up a post on the blog and it pinged Technorati, Pingomatic or some such service. A spammer must have intercepted it there and started the onslaught of blogspam.

]]> By: Dean Anderson http://www.whirlycott.com/phil/2004/11/23/domain-name-nirvana-and-damn-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-28654 Dean Anderson Wed, 13 Jun 2007 23:21:01 +0000 http://www.whirlycott.com/phil/?p=21#comment-28654 This just indicates that abusers/spammers have some access to the .org zone file; Maybe because they work there; or maybe they have rooted the registrar or ICANN, or somewhere the .org zone passes on its way to its DNS servers. It could mean the registrar's are selling this information. Abusers aren't guessing at names. That process would take longer, because they'd have to keep repeating their searches to catch the new names. There are only a few possibilities that work in near constant and repeatably constant time. Guessing isn't one of them. This just indicates that abusers/spammers have some access to the .org zone file; Maybe because they work there; or maybe they have rooted the registrar or ICANN, or somewhere the .org zone passes on its way to its DNS servers. It could mean the registrar’s are selling this information.

Abusers aren’t guessing at names. That process would take longer, because they’d have to keep repeating their searches to catch the new names. There are only a few possibilities that work in near constant and repeatably constant time. Guessing isn’t one of them.

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