Quoting Kenneth Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > --On Thursday, September 27, 2007 7:05 PM +0200 Giampaolo Tomassoni > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The only problem is that a spammer could "query" it days before it will > > bulk send, thereby impairing the effectiveness of such approach. > > > > I think we need some "official" data like the domain's creation time: at > > least, spammers will be mandated to buy domains a couple of month before > > using them... > > I recall reading about a scam used by registrars to buy up large blocks of > names, then cancel the purchase and incur no penalty, then buy them up > again, over and over, to hold them off the market at no cost. How would you > detect such a thing?
It's called domain tasting or domain kiting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_tasting http://www.bobparsons.com/DomainKiting.html Jeff C.