VeriSign's rapid DNS updates in .com/.net

Fri Jul 23 16:26:50 UTC 2004

I don't want to digress into a spam-l or asrg standard thread, but I do want
to point out the similarity of what I think are ad networks that manage
sets of write-engines (aka "zombies") in the blog-spam (http) problem space
with the canonical abuse-desk/xdsl swamp meta-thread on nanog.

I'm observing rotation of write-side assets (dsl zomb-o-the-moment), and
rotation of ad inventory (variation on viagra/paxil/casino/xxx domains.

This is in response to the comment that begins
> Let's just be clear that not all sites mentioned in spam are profiting
> ...

Which was in reply to a comment that concluded
> Spam doesn't occur in a vacuum.  The other half is the "site(s)" profiting 
> ...

Eric