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Re: Avalanche botnet takedown


From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg () tristatelogic com>
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2016 15:01:50 -0800


In message <20161201205647.GA8911 () gsp org>, 
Rich Kulawiec <rsk () gsp org> wrote:

2. As an aside, I've been doing a little research project for a
few years, focused on domains.  I've become convinced that *at least*
99% of domains belong to abusers: spammers, phishers, typosquatters,
malware distributors, domaineers, combinations of these, etc. 

As you probably know Rich, that's not exactly a novel observation.  Vixie
was already saying it a full six years ago, and things have only gotten
worse since then.

http://www.circleid.com/posts/20100728_taking_back_the_dns/

Regards,
rfg


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