[Scspamcop] domain is "terminated-for-abuse" but website is still up!?

Andre Guirard aguirard at comcast.net
Fri Nov 2 16:00:52 EDT 2007


I'm looking at the following domains which are the target of links in spam 
I've been receiving a lot of recently:

disguisement.info
unreclaimed.net
reposit.net

There are more, but these will serve as an example. When I use samspade.org 
to trace the domains to find out who's hosting them, I get, for instance:
216.37.96.10 = [ 216-37-96-10.terminated-for-abuse.net ]
ERROR: Unable to connect to rwhois.ansi1.net for 216.37.96.10 ... Aborting 
...

What I'm trying to figure out is, if the domain has been terminated for 
abuse (as well it might be!), why is the website still up? How do I tell who 
is actually hosting it now? When spam has been reported and the IP address 
is listed as terminated, why, a week later, has there been no effect 
whatsoever on the spammer's business? They might as well not bother using a 
new domain every day, because the old ones keep on working! Why, when I do 
manage to track down the website hosting company, do they have no idea that 
the domain has been terminated. How is it I talk to an administrator there 
and they have no idea what samspade.org is or where they get their 
information? What should I tell people like this so that they will be able 
to put procedures in place to actually shut down people who have supposedly 
bee shut down?




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