My hero for this month is registrar THE NAMEIT
CORPORATION. These folks are right on the cutting
edge of spam prevention. Let me explain.
If ever you want to see what sites have been
spammed in the past 24 hours, even in the past
hour, take a look at
AbuseButler. This month I
have noticed an exciting trend. There is an
increasing number of recently spammed sites
listed there with an address of 127.0.0.127. This
is an address that can never be reached, meaning
that the spammed site has been taken down. It is
an address that is used by my hero, The Nameit
Corporation. It seems our spammers have figured
that they are a safe haven for their sites, and
have been registering them there en masse. But my
hero has decided enough is too much. And they are
killing them off in mid flight.
My not so great hero of the month is Network
Solutions. Asked to remove a domain
(dnspotato.com) that is being used to resolve
access to over 50 of Alex Polyakov's sites, they
tried but failed to carry out the request. It's
back to registrar school 101 for Network
Solutions.
And guess what! Many of the sites that my hero is
having to shut down one by one, could all have
been shut down in one fell swoop if only Network
Solutions had done the job properly.
