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DoItQuick: Fast Domains for Dirty Deeds

Summary: A service called DoItQuick, operating at doitquick.net, offered mass registration of up to 15 randomly named domains at once, selling "white" domains guaranteed to stay registered for a year and "black" domains expected to last 2 to 30 days before cancellation. Black domains cost about $5, were paid for via virtual currencies such as Webmoney and Liberty Reserve, and were pitched for redirects, exploit packs, traffic, flood and botnets, with names checked against blacklists, trackers and Spamhaus.

What's compelling: At roughly $5 per domain and an average lifespan of about a week, an attacker can burn through disposable infrastructure faster than blocklists and takedowns can keep pace, and commenters on the piece argued the short revocation window points to domains registered with stolen cards.

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