no whois info ?

Fri Dec 10 10:15:54 UTC 2004

william(at)elan.net <william at elan.net> wrote:
[...]
> Read NANOG archives - Verisign now allows immediate (well, within
> about 10 minutes) updates of .com/.net zones (also same for .biz)
> while whois data is still updated once or twice a day. That means if
> spammer registers new domain he'll be able to use it immediatly and
> it'll not yet show up in whois (and so not be immediatly
> identifiable to spam reporting tools) - and spammers are in fact
> using this "feature" more and more!

This tempts me to hack something into Exim that does a whois on
previously-unseen sender domains, and give a deferral if the whois
denies existence of the domain. Is this likely to have any meaningful
effect?

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