Re: Fast WHOIS lookup

[Marc Perkel]

Jeff Chan wrote: On Saturday, May 13, 2006, 12:18:42 PM, Marc Perkel wrote: I'm doing some research using WHOIS to find the owners of domains in the URI blocklists and finding that many of them have the same owners. I thing that a database of owners of the URIs that spam links to could be extremely useful in detecting spam.. I;m seeing that a huge amount of spam is owned by optinrealbig.com Is there any fast and efficient way to pipe a bunch of URIs into a program and return owners? No. And Paul is right that most of the spammers' whois data are fake, so they're not really useful for detecting spammers. Jeff C. Their whois data might be fake but I might be able to ID spam based in the use of the same fake whois data.