On Thu, Oct 01, 1998 at 08:14:47PM -0400, Barry Shein wrote:
As fast as one of these .to domains is shut down the domain hijackers open another .to domain, apparently within minutes, and continue spamming with that.
So it's not doing a lot of good asking tonic to shut down domain a.to when that just results in seeing spam shortly thereafter advertising b.to and then c.to and d.to and e.to and f.to etc.
One major problem is the mismanagement of the .to domain, and to what purpose (apparently not to serve the Kingdom of Tonga as a national TLD) remains fairly mysterious, other than "for money" and whatever damage it does to others be damned.
It doesn't do any damage. A domain is just a domain ! Have you tried to complain to abuse at foo.to:s network operator ? Could you please clarify why it is worse to get a SPAM from foo.to than from foo.com ? Internic will let anyone register a .com domain.
It's like a site which won't close an open mail relay. Sure, it's ultimately the spammers exploiting the open relay which are the actual perps. But if all the open mail relay will do, for example, is block the one domain from relaying so the spammers just jump to another domain and use them as an open relay again, and again, and again...well then just informing them of the latest domain on an hourly basis isn't really doing it.
You can't compare a TLD with a mail relay ... Still, a domain is just a domain. You don't even NEED a domain to send out SPAMS. The only thing you need is a connection to the Internet. Go complain to the network operator ! Could you please clarify why .to should take more action against spammers than Internic ? <RANT> Duh, here is a dark alley, oh, there is a drug-dealer in the dark alley. Hummm, lets forbid dark alleys .... </RANT> Go to the god damn source of the problem. The Network Operator ! Do you run to Internic as soon as you get a SPAM from a .com domain ? Most probably not. And most importantly, do you come whining on NANOG as soon as you get a SPAM from a .com domain ? Can't you see that this is just plain silly ? --Magnus