Seems that the lifting of restrictions on URL suffixes is inspiring the
spammers. So far I've gotten (a lot of) spam from a site using a suffix
of .uk, but actually located in Texas. Today I got one with a suffix
of .ar which turned out to be in Florida.
Guess we can now assume that the suffix is meaningless.
In article <[email protected]>, Larry Blanchard
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Seems that the lifting of restrictions on URL suffixes is inspiring the
> spammers. So far I've gotten (a lot of) spam from a site using a suffix
> of .uk, but actually located in Texas. Today I got one with a suffix
> of .ar which turned out to be in Florida.
>
> Guess we can now assume that the suffix is meaningless.
Has been for a looonnnnnggg time, Larry. I do remember when they meant
something, but gaming national suffixes is nothing new. Remember when
.tv came along?
--
³Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness
sobered, but stupid lasts forever.² -- Aristophanes
On Wed, 19 Nov 2014 15:43:21 -0600, Dave Balderstone wrote:
>> Guess we can now assume that the suffix is meaningless.
>
> Has been for a looonnnnnggg time, Larry. I do remember when they meant
> something, but gaming national suffixes is nothing new. Remember when
> .tv came along?
True - but until recently I hadn't seen many instances of spammers using
them to deliberately mask their location. Most of what I saw was for
advertising or just to be "cute".
For example,the Fastmail site used a suffix of .fm. Turns out to be the
legal suffix of the Federated Islands of Micronesia :-)