On Tuesday, September 7, 2004, 6:16:36 PM, Jeff Chan wrote:
On Tuesday, September 7, 2004, 5:40:47 PM, Joe Wein wrote:
Chris Santerre wrote:
Domain List matching contacts_email of hostmaster@1and1.com
* 1: 1-asian-sex.com * 2: 1and1.com...
* 48: uptimesoftware.com * 49: wonderfulldeals.com
I think you're missing the point, Chris. The domain 1and1.com is unlikely to be listed in spam, let alone *only* listed in spam. Furthermore, of the domains you list I had a hard time finding one that was both active and SURBL-listed.
I hope Chris was showing us some other domains with similar registration information. That said, *registrar* information isn't to useful except in the case of mostly blackhat registrars.
I should add, this kind of data is only useful in proving a blackhat registrar if we also know how many other domains they have registered.
If a registrar has 100 spam domains but 100,000 legitimate ones they're probably not a blackhat registrar. If another registrar has 100 spam domains but 20 legitimate ones, they're likely a blackhat. Domains belonging to the second registrar could be "scored" as more likely spammy by some yet to be written (or revealed) software. However that only works if you can see the other 100,000 and the 20, which normally you can't.
In other words not enough information may be visible to draw reliable conclusions about the badness of a given registrar. On the other hand some general information about the number of domains some large registrar holds is available at registration statistics sites like:
http://www.whois.sc/internet-statistics/registrar-stats-2003.html
Jeff C.