If SEM was able to detect newly registered domains more quickly then that would solve the problem. ________________________________________ From: John Hardin <jhar...@impsec.org> Sent: Monday, June 09, 2014 2:24 PM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Domain ages (was Re: SPAM from a registrar)
On Mon, 9 Jun 2014, David F. Skoll wrote: > On Mon, 9 Jun 2014 11:51:21 -0700 (PDT) > John Hardin <jhar...@impsec.org> wrote: > >>> So there is merit in building a distributed look-up system using SA. > >> Distributed lookup of *what*, though? Can you clarify that part of >> your idea? Are you referring to distributed whois queries for a >> domain name, to determine its age? > > The clever part is that once lots of sites begin using this in their > SA setups, we'll very quickly build up quite an accurate database of > newly-seen domains that's completely independent of any registrar for > a data source. Ah, ok, that's where I was confused. The proposal is for a distributed network gathering newly-SEEN domain names, rather than newly-REGISTERED domain names. Thanks for the clarification. I was focusing on the latter. -- John Hardin KA7OHZ http://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org FALaholic #11174 pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6 B873 2E79 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- You can't reason a person out of a position if he didn't use reason to get there in the first place. -- Kristopher, at Marko's ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 739 days since the first successful private support mission to ISS (SpaceX)
