Matthew Elvey wrote:
If we assume spammers will churn through $5 domains in very high
volume, and notice if any of them get expired by BL maintainers, so
they all need to stay in BLs, how big a BL are we talking about?
Something significantly smaller, IMHO -- otherwise the registrars
would get filthy rich. ;^) Spammers are nothing if not cheap.
From http://www.dailychanges.com/:
Changes are being tracked for (.COM, .NET, .ORG, .INFO, .BIZ, .US, .WS)
Today's Date 5/13/2004 9:51 AM PST
Status of domains on 5/13/2004
All 38,977,593 Total Domains
28,306,930 .COM
4,656,800 .NET
2,942,751 .ORG
1,161,175 .INFO
979,265 .BIZ
769,034 .US
So, let's wild guesstimate 100 million domains worldwide, ~18 bytes
long, half are spammers.
900 million bytes, uncompressed.
Reality check: could half be spammers'? That's $5 * 50 million. They
don't have that much cash.
Stolen credit cards.
Yakov
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