[192886] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Avalanche botnet takedown
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ronald F. Guilmette)
Thu Dec 1 18:01:55 2016
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From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20161201205647.GA8911@gsp.org>
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2016 15:01:50 -0800
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In message <20161201205647.GA8911@gsp.org>,
Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org> wrote:
>2. As an aside, I've been doing a little research project for a
>few years, focused on domains. I've become convinced that *at least*
>99% of domains belong to abusers: spammers, phishers, typosquatters,
>malware distributors, domaineers, combinations of these, etc.
As you probably know Rich, that's not exactly a novel observation. Vixie
was already saying it a full six years ago, and things have only gotten
worse since then.
http://www.circleid.com/posts/20100728_taking_back_the_dns/
Regards,
rfg
