http://juju.org/articles/2005/02/17/jagk-com-performs-preemptive-strike-against-referral-spammer en-us 40 Sufficiently Advanced Technology <p>I was looking through my logs to weed out referral spammers and saw a domain that looked odd called <a href="http://jagk.com">jagk.com</a>. So I visted the site and found the following message:</p> <blockquote>jagk.com coming soon So I was looking through my referer logs, and found a spammer pushing a domain, "jagk.com" -- but the domain hadn't been registered yet. So in a preemptive strike, I registered jagk.com for myself. And why not? It's a nice, short name, and I'm sure I can do something better with it than any spammer ever could. Watch this space.</blockquote> <p>That man deserves a cookie. Thanks! In case you're wondering, spammers have begun using a new technique to <a href="http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/13/1721203">get around DNS based anti-spam lookups</a> by registering a domain AFTER they've sent out a load of spam.</p> Thu, 17 Feb 2005 12:36:20 -0500 urn:uuid:4904b72e780bd559ee45b14fb4903e2b Tony Buser http://juju.org/articles/2005/02/17/jagk-com-performs-preemptive-strike-against-referral-spammer Internet http://juju.org/articles/trackback/333