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Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 13:46:33 +1000
From: Nick Slager To: Rob Wise Cc: Mail List - Oz-ISP, Howard Lowndes, Mail List LINK Message-Id: <54a67a78e7198f62567ee8ab0f5ff585@zith.net> In-Reply-To: <20050502081217.L56281@bozo.wonk.org> References: <4274274B.5010403@lannet.com.au> <20050502081217.L56281@bozo.wonk.org> Subject: Re: [Oz-ISP] Just out of curiosity... |
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On 02/05/2005, at 8:32 AM, Rob Wise wrote: > > On Sun, 1 May 2005, Howard Lowndes wrote: > >> ...I decided to follow up some investigation on one of the myriad of >> spam emails which I (along with everyone else) receives. >> >> I thought the domain name (tnhoklsq.com) looked manufactured but I >> attempted to do a whois on it, and drew a blank at >> whois.internic.net. Normally when I do a whois it will take me off to >> the relevant registrar's whois database via whois-servers.net. So it >> appears that this domain name is not in any registrar's database, >> well, none that are visible. > > I can't find a handy link at this of the day, but the reason you're > seeing that is because VeriSign allows newly registered domains to be > added to the DNS almost immediately, but they are not added to the > whois data until the next scheduled update, which is likely several > hours away. This gives spammers the opportunity to use domains for > several hours before contact details become available. This came into effect September 8, 2004. Verisign weren't the first TLD operator to introduce 'rapid update', as they called it; others were doing it prior to that date (.biz, .info etc). Whether the convenience of having your new .com/.net domain visible almost instantly is worth the tradeoff of introducing an additional avenue for spammers to exploit is questionable. http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/2004-07/msg00242.html http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/2004-07/msg00354.html Nick ---- email "unsubscribe aussie-isp" to m a j o r d o m o @ a u s s i e . n e t to be removed. |
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