straight from the horse's mouth -- they said "99.99% of the 900,000 domains" have been sinkholed.
____________ Justin Paine Head of Trust & Safety Cloudflare Inc. PGP: BBAA 6BCE 3305 7FD6 6452 7115 57B6 0114 DE0B 314D On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 1:02 PM, J. Hellenthal <jhellent...@dataix.net> wrote: > 99% ? That's a pretty high figure there. > > -- > Onward!, > Jason Hellenthal, > Systems & Network Admin, > Mobile: 0x9CA0BD58, > JJH48-ARIN > > On Dec 1, 2016, at 14:56, Rich Kulawiec <r...@gsp.org> wrote: > >> On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 05:34:26PM -0000, John Levine wrote: >> [...] 800,000 domain names used to control it. > > 1. Which is why abusers are registrars' best customers and why > (some) registrars work so very hard to support and shield them. > > 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. > > In the last year, I've begun thinking that 99% is a serious underestimate. > (And it most certainly is in some of the new gTLDs.) > > ---rsk >