that’s nice, but useless unless you also take into account the size of the registrar, IOW the number of domains they registered in the same period.
Neil Schwartzman Executive Director Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email http://cauce.org Tel : (303) 800-6345 Twitter : @cauce On May 23, 2014, at 12:22 PM, James B. Byrne <byrn...@harte-lyne.ca> wrote: > While the number of messages getting through has dropped off to near zero this > morning I nonetheless took the time to look into registrars with respect to > SPAM and found this interesting web site: http://rss.uribl.com/nic/ > > As of this morning the top domain registrars with respect to spam origin are > these: > > Top 100 Registrars with Blacklisted Domains for last 5 days > > Rank Registrar Listed Active Percent > 1 ENOM, INC. 3335 7403 45.05% > > 2 GO DADDY SOFTWARE, INC. 1326 12718 10.43% > > 3 GMO INTERNET, INC. D/B/A ONAMAE.COM AND DISCOUNT-DOMAIN.COM > 1080 1692 63.83% > > 4 REGRU-REG-RIPN 592 1515 39.08% > > 5 PDR LTD. D/B/A PUBLICDOMAINREGISTRY.COM > 456 1660 27.47% > > 6 OVH 321 1710 18.77% > > 7 MONIKER ONLINE SERVICES, INC. > 233 488 47.75% > . . . > > If I read this correctly then one out of every two recently active Enom > registered domains is engaged in SPAM activities. What I cannot tell is > whether the total number of active domains refers to recent registrations (<5 > days old) or number of domains registered with Enom that have evidenced some > Internet activity as measured by some indeterminate means. > > I also note that the 'Privacy' service for the spam site owner contact > registered at Enom is Moniker. Who also has a one out of two ratio of spam > domains to total active domains. > > If this information is accurate then it seems to me on the basis of the > evidence that it is entirely reasonable to block email from domains registered > with either Enom or Moniker; and GMO Internet looks like a good candidate as > well. > > Comments? > > -- > *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** > James B. Byrne mailto:byrn...@harte-lyne.ca > Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca > 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 > Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 > Canada L8E 3C3 >
