Pity you let the domain go – someone is probably making some nice $$$ from it now… Inlinks: 1,240

The hits have dropped off almost entirely now, with new arrivals being in the single figures each day.

The analysis may take several iterations if people can come up with some good suggestions. The logging is all done to a DB so what I might do is extract the relevant data and make it available so others can see the raw stuff and analyse it too.

it looks like you twigged that it’s not me that controls the spam-run. Your main question therefore is about who has been stopped and how, for which the answer is: my actions stop one particular spammer from profiting from one particular spam run, because he can’t use the clicks to channel viewers to a website promoting pills, porn, poker, or whatever else is paying his bills.

As for how it’s helping the ongoing spam problem, well, hopefully the traffic analysis will be interesting to some spam fighters, but ultimately, on it’s own, this small little act of defiance can’t do much.

Rich

You are doing what you vowed to change. I still keep getting comments like ‘Nice Site’ from people lilke Donny. I already know you are here. Please Stop leaving comments.

Or are we all being trashed, and this is a perfect domain for advertisers and you are really the enemy??

I certainly DO NOT get why you are still leaving comments on
my BLog……maybe we are all being bulldozed with Bull.

[12 minutes pass then Peach comments again]

Listen,

I think I understand what is going on now. But I already have Spam Blacklist and it is working fine. I haven’t had spam in a very long time until I found you.

If a spammer leaves junk(comment) on my Blog and it leads me here. Then I cannot copy him to add to my Spam Blacklist and I will just keep getting his same spam comments that lead me here.

Does it stop that one spammer?…. and then I’ll still get others? I really do not understand. If you are not ‘Donny’ and he is a spammer, then I could have knocked him out already after only one spam with my Blacklist.

But I cannot knock him out with my BLocker the first time because it brings me here. So please excuse this non-techie, but I do not understand how this is helping the ‘ongoing’ spam(same person) if it always brings me here.????

The scuz actually spammed the blog of a little boy with BRAIN CANCER!

http://blogs.oc.edu/ee/?/jsims

-dhl

I believe we are many extremly interested into your traffic (and financial) analysis of the potential benefit of this spamming event.

I think you are a genius! I think you are brilliant! I am your number one fan (in a good way)! You rock! Go get ‘em tiger! Mr Spammer is a complete moron and you are not.

When life gives you oranges – eat them. That’s what I say.

I’ve heard that when a domain expires, the Google pagerank automatically goes away. But, if there are still other links around, those can build the PR back up when Google sees them again.

In this case I’d be surprised if that was their motive. For one thing, it may be a hard name to pick up when it expires. If there are a lot of links to the site (and Yahoo currently shows 687 links to that domain), it’ll be in relatively high demand by people that snap up expiring domain names to put ads on them. The going price for the expired domain name would be fair amount higher than what you paid for it, and the spammer would then have to compete with anyone else that notices all the incoming links to try to grab the domain.

I also just can’t imagine a spammer having such a long-term plan for a spam run, but who knows. My first guess was that it was a typo in the spam, and the spammer had already registered the domain that he meant to spam. Who knows.

Meanwhile I would like to draw your attention to voice-spam, otherwise known as telemarketing calls. With the advent of VoIP you can rest assured this will take off like wildfire especially once someone out starts paying for every message left on someone’s answering machine.
I have started gathering a list of known telemarketer caller-ids and am looking for ways to publicize this list. Any suggestions you might have are greatly welcomed.

Of course to use this list of caller-ids you do have to install a system capable of acting on them. For this I use Asterisk [www.asterisk.org] software and about $200 of hardware from Digium [www.digium.com] integrated into an old PC.

You can read more about this on my website at PBnJ Solutions.

PaulW