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Re: Avalanche botnet takedown
From: Justin Paine via NANOG <nanog () nanog org>
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2016 13:06:39 -0800
straight from the horse's mouth -- they said "99.99% of the 900,000 domains" have been sinkholed. ____________ Justin Paine Head of Trust & Safety Cloudflare Inc. PGP: BBAA 6BCE 3305 7FD6 6452 7115 57B6 0114 DE0B 314D On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 1:02 PM, J. Hellenthal <jhellenthal () dataix net> wrote:
99% ? That's a pretty high figure there. -- Onward!, Jason Hellenthal, Systems & Network Admin, Mobile: 0x9CA0BD58, JJH48-ARIN On Dec 1, 2016, at 14:56, Rich Kulawiec <rsk () gsp org> wrote:On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 05:34:26PM -0000, John Levine wrote: [...] 800,000 domain names used to control it.1. Which is why abusers are registrars' best customers and why (some) registrars work so very hard to support and shield them. 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. In the last year, I've begun thinking that 99% is a serious underestimate. (And it most certainly is in some of the new gTLDs.) ---rsk
Current thread:
- Avalanche botnet takedown John Levine (Dec 01)
- Re: Avalanche botnet takedown anthony kasza (Dec 01)
- Re: Avalanche botnet takedown Ronald F. Guilmette (Dec 01)
- Re: Avalanche botnet takedown Paul Ferguson (Dec 01)
- Re: Avalanche botnet takedown Tony Finch (Dec 02)
- Re: Avalanche botnet takedown Rich Kulawiec (Dec 01)
- Re: Avalanche botnet takedown J. Hellenthal (Dec 01)
- Re: Avalanche botnet takedown Justin Paine via NANOG (Dec 01)
- Re: Avalanche botnet takedown Robert McKay (Dec 01)
- Re: Avalanche botnet takedown Rich Kulawiec (Dec 01)
- Re: [nanog] Re: Avalanche botnet takedown Hugo Salgado-Hernández (Dec 02)
- Re: [nanog] Avalanche botnet takedown Jason Hellenthal (Dec 02)
- Re: Avalanche botnet takedown J. Hellenthal (Dec 01)
- Re: Avalanche botnet takedown Ronald F. Guilmette (Dec 01)
- Re: Avalanche botnet takedown Rich Kulawiec (Dec 02)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Avalanche botnet takedown Scott Weeks (Dec 01)
- RE: Avalanche botnet takedown Steve Mikulasik (Dec 01)
- Re: Avalanche botnet takedown Ronald F. Guilmette (Dec 01)
- Re: Avalanche botnet takedown Scott Weeks (Dec 01)