Heard of "domain tasting"?

Post #338,596 by drook 1/14/11 11:59:57 AM Reply	Heard of "domain tasting"? Q. What is domain tasting? A. Domain tasting is the process of registering a domain name for a period of five days or less, parking it (showing ads), and seeing if it makes money. If the domain makes money, the registrant keeps it, if not, it is deleted and the registration fee is refunded back to the registrant. The registry (com/net/org/biz/info/us) allow for a 5 day grace period in which newly registered domains can be deleted for a full refund. Tasting only works in large volumes, which is why some registrars register tens or hundreds of thousands of domains per day. My emphasis. I just checked a batch of identical spam I got. They were from a range of sequential domains -- new55flash, new16flash, etc. -- so I went looking. Yup, they're listed on a "tasting" site, where I got that explanation up top. You know, I might like a filter that jails any mail from a domain that's existed less than 5 days. Hold it for five days and see if the domain is still there before dropping it in my inbox. -- Drew
Post #338,601 by folkert 1/14/11 12:45:05 PM Reply	Yeps, its been commonplace for about 5 years. Been really getting bad recently for SPAM. In fact if you go read up on it, you'll see that the REALLY BIG SEO sellers do it to see which domains to keep based on hits and traffic generated. Apparently now its being used for SPAM. Huge amounts of SPAM domains are being setup automatically. The tasting cost little to nothing and can be automated. Its bad.
Post #338,602 by drook 1/14/11 1:08:52 PM Reply	Is anyone blocking email based on domain age? -- Drew
Post #338,604 by jake123 1/14/11 1:38:12 PM Reply	Here's a question are the domains being used as the from, or as the hosts actually sending the mail? Or just as a place to park the link that the spam points to?
Post #338,607 by boxley 1/14/11 1:47:39 PM Reply	depends there are several sites that score domains and new are usually scored in a spam like way Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 55 years. meep
Post #338,609 by jake123 1/14/11 1:54:19 PM Reply	I've gone and done some a-googling According to teh goog, this problem was largely solved in '09. Anything that might've changed in the last little while to kill that solution?
Post #338,618 by drook 1/14/11 2:31:47 PM 1/14/11 2:32:10 PM Reply	Ah, good point The "from" was Hotmail on all of them in this batch. The "tasted" domain was in a link in the body. (That was supposed to be attached to your other comment.) -- Drew Edited by drook Jan. 14, 2011, 02:32:10 PM EST Expand All History

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