On Tue, 3 Apr 2007, Dave Pooser wrote:

> I'm seeing a bunch of spam using URLs from domains created on the
> same day or in the past day or two. I don't know how red.uribl.com
> works, but I imagine it missed the same-day stuff because its
> automated process needs time to work. Is there a better way to
> handle this-- possibly pulling the information from whois during
> mail processing? (Although that would be resource-intensive and
> would probably run afoul of their prohibition on high-volume
> querying, so that's probably a lose.)

The registrar scoring plugin I wrote could probably be pretty easily 
extended to compare the creation date to now, but you're right, it 
does abuse the whois system. It tries to minimize that through 
caching, though.

http://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/antispam/registrar_scoring/

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