Spam Site Registrations Flee China for Russia
Summary: After China's CNNIC barred individuals from registering .cn domains in mid-December 2009, new spam-advertised domain registrations shifted from .cn to .ru within weeks, according to University of Alabama at Birmingham data. In a 24-hour sample, ISC spam traps found more than 10,000 unique domains advertised in spam, of which 1,366 were .ru, 491 were .com and 18 were .cn among 1,870 tied to rogue pharmacies.
Bottom line: Russia's Coordination Center was set to require a passport or legal registration papers for .ru addresses beginning April 1, so the abuse was expected to move again - and country-code registries sit largely outside ICANN's reach, leaving no central authority to chase it.
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