Perhaps some...but a few <$10 domain names for a spam job that they charge several hundred dollars for still yields a high profit margin.
A few months ago, against my advice, a customer of mine engaged a firm over in Clearwater, FL to send out 2 million emails for him to one of their "optin" lists. Once I convinced them to send me a "test", I verified that they were one of the larger Florida spammers. My customer paid them $600 for their services which also included slight reformatting of his pre-made email ad and redirection of links in the email through their systems to his website. I'm sure that setup cost them less than an hour's work, at most two once you consider the sales time. With overhead (including all operating expenses, equipment, software, etc.) I doubt that costs them any more than $100/hr....which means they're making at least $400 pure profit from the deal. So a few $10 domain names don't put much of a dent in their profits. Darin. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kim Premuda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Declude JunkMail Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2004 1:34 AM Subject: FWD: Re: Re[2]: [Declude.JunkMail] Spam getting through ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "Sheldon Koehler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 12:12:11 -0700 It is obvious they are using "disposable" domain names. They come in flavors like gbzqrx.info and so on. --------------------------------------------------------------- Interesting point. At first, I could not understand how spammers could afford "disposable" domain names. Then, I came to the conclusion that they are also bona fide domain name registrars...it costs them nothing to register thousands of "disposable" domain names. -- Kim W. Premuda FastWave Internet Services San Diego, CA -- --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com. --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
