Symantec's Samir Patil reports that their company has observed a major drop in spam originating from .CN domains. Back in December, the CNNIC announced that they would be enacting new rules about domain name registrations "in order to further enhance the authenticity, accuracy, and integrality of the domain name registration information."
The change seems to have worked wonders. Patil notes .CN based spam has dropped from previous rates -- as much as 50% of all spam -- to as low as 5% since the new policy was put in place. Whether or not the change was intended to have this effect remains to be seen. After all, this could have been a decision based purely upon the desire to have more control over the approval process.
So why is .CN so popular, anyway? It's apparently a believable place to send Canadian Pharmacy spam from.
As much as it pains me to tell you all this, that discount Viagra from Canada you've been this close to ordering?
Yeah...Canadian pharmacies (at least the ones I know about) don't operate in China. We'll have to get our little blue pills elsewhere.
On a good note, China has been making life harder for spammers originally appeared on Download Squad on Sat, 16 Jan 2010 08:43:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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