>...
>> Unfortunately, I've had plenty of FPs with the basic *.geocities.com.. A
>lot of
>> "enthusiast" websites of various sorts are hosted there and my users like
>to
>> forward around links to them.
>
>I wonder what the effect of listing /\w\.\w\w\.geocities\.com\b/ would be?
>That would only catch the non-US hosts. Arguably still using way too large
>a hammer, but for some people it might work.
>
> Loren
>
Unfortunately, the use of all of these is merely an attempt to
avoid spam filters. AFAICT, all the geocities sites are just CNAMES
for a single large domain.
Examples:
% nslookup -type=any uk.geocities.com ns1.yahoo.com
Server: ns1.yahoo.com
Address: 66.218.71.63#53
uk.geocities.com canonical name = geocities.com.
% nslookup -type=any sg.geocities.com ns1.yahoo.com
Server: ns1.yahoo.com
Address: 66.218.71.63#53
sg.geocities.com canonical name = geocities.com.
% nslookup -type=any www.geocities.com ns1.yahoo.com
Server: ns1.yahoo.com
Address: 66.218.71.63#53
www.geocities.com canonical name = geocities.com.
Put simply, there is no difference between any of them, and a
spammer can just change the chosen "country" pretty much at random.
Paul Shupak
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