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

[Tim McGraw]

Andre Guirard wrote:
> 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?

The domain terminated-for-abuse.net does not exist. When I go to 
samspade.org it tells me (for example) "reposit.net = [216.37.96.10]."