[103173] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NXDOMAIN data needed for survey
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Atkins)
Thu Mar 20 15:36:34 2008
From: Steve Atkins <steve@blighty.com>
To: nanog list <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <2d106eb50803201204t77ba0659h383a8c5dc9f7a941@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:22:01 -0700
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Mar 20, 2008, at 12:04 PM, Martin Hannigan wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 1:33 PM, Steve Atkins <steve@blighty.com>
> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mar 20, 2008, at 9:56 AM, Martin Hannigan wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Ray Demain wrote:
>>>> We are looking to purchase NXDOMAIN data for an internet survey.
>>>>
>>>> We prefer to receive the data on an hourly basis so it is as
>>>> fresh as
>>>> possible. Our system receives the data from you via ftp that you
>>>> provide.
>>>> Its hard to value the data until we have taken a look at it. As one
>>>> example,
>>>> we pay a current partner $4000 per month for 100,000 records per
>>>> day. If you
>>>> would like to setup a test so we can determine the value of your
>>>> data please
>>>> contact me at
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> What company would this be for?
>>
>> A domain squatting company, presumably.
>
>
> Thanks, I know. I wanted to stimulate a thread that was archived for
> others historical reference.
Yeah, me too.
He's also apparently Mr Domain Investments LLC, Mr herbalclicks.com,
was typosquatting on a bunch of t-mobile domains until they took them
away from him -
http://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/decisions/html/2007/d2007-0919.html
- and was sued by Microsoft for sending CAN-SPAM violating spam to
hotmail users a couple of years back in the myauctionbiz.biz case -
http://spamkings.oreilly.com/MSFT-vs-Myauctionbizbiz.pdf .
I wonder who he's paying for his nxdomain data, and whether that
someone is authorized to sell it. It strikes me that it's just a small
step for someone with access to ISP internal data to go from selling
DNS logs to selling usernames too.
Cheers,
Steve
