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ICANN shutting down a Chinese registrar?

I saw this today on Slashdot. There is an ICANN registrar in China who is apparently not living up to its obligations to verify proper contact information for people registering domain names. The registrar is Xinnet Bei Gong Da Software. How bad is it you ask? Of 11,000 suspected spam domains registered through them, NONE were [...]

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Spammers using FDF file format

In their never ending quest to evade our filters the spammers have now started using FDF attachments to spread their message. I’ll admit I had to look up what an FDF file was. It stands for Forms Document Format. This file format can be viewed using Acrobat reader the way a PDF file would. Apparently the [...]

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Comment / Trackback Spam and blocking IP’s

I just looked and I have blocked over 20,000 pieces of spam on my blog thanks to Akismet. I wish my email spam solution worked as well as Akismet does on my blog, but that’s a different discussion. The rate of spam has actually gone down for me by over 700% in the last [...]

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