william(at)elan.net wrote:
 
>> There's a lot more information available about domain names
>> than about IP addresses,
 
> I disagree.

"Age of domain" has its uses if you can get it.  RFCI listings
are also interesting.
 
> In the end the most reliable way to detect and filter these
> domains is actually based on ip address of the the server
> hosting the website for the advertised and used domain

You can also use SURBL at the moment.

> I'm not at all certain that doing reputation on per-domain
> basis will be easy (in fact I think it would be more
> difficult then on per-ip).

Depends, the white / grey hats will have stable domains.  The
bad guys use throw away domains.  Maybe SURBL forces them to
use redirections (that's of course irrelevant for DKIM).

> claiming that this will allow us to stop spam (either
> directly or indirectly putting all hope on
> accreditation/reputation) are incorrect.

ACK, but nobody did that, a "threat analysis" for a FUSSP
would be rather simple :-)
                          Bye, Frank


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