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Why .biz is the Spam TLD
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Yes -- but if a spammer sets up the zone, they can specify the TTL, and specify a low one.
Regarding the 32-bit rollover problem -- it's likely that they wouldn't have to update the zone more often than once every 10 minutes or so at most to evade shutdowns.
BTW, worth noting that I'm not suggesting that EPP is a bad thing, per se -- it's just interesting that .biz (and .info, to a lesser degree) has become the spammer's choice of TLD, as a side effect. As for a response to this, I haven't a clue ;) For now, it provides handy info for spam filters -- a .biz URL in an email has a shockingly high spam probability.
Interesting that .org also uses EPP -- I haven't yet seen many .orgs in modern spam...
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Re:You forgot that each record has a TTL
by jmason
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.org made the transition to EPP exactly one year ago this month, following VeriSign being forced to give up control of .org to Public Interest Registry [pir.org]. PIR is putting the finishing touches right now on centralizing the Whois informatiom from various registrars for the 3 million .org names into a single, registry database.
As for why spammers are choosing .biz as opposed to .info or .org, perhaps they figure it sounds the most dot-comish and therefore they figure people are stupid enough to believe them? ;)
Just a thought ...
Cheers,
Doug
Doug Mehus
http://doug.mehus.info/ [mehus.info]
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