Austrian Domain Registrar Nic.at Blacklisted by Spamhaus

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Austrian Domain Registrar Nic.at Blacklisted by Spamhaus

06-23-2007, 09:26 AM,

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Austrian Domain Registrar Nic.at Blacklisted by Spamhaus

Quote:Anti-spam organisation Spamhaus has taken the unusual step of putting an entry for Austrian Domain Registrar Nic.at on its Spamhaus Block List (SBL).

Nic.at was listed1 for "knowingly providing services" to hundreds of spam phishing domains run by a Russian cybercrime phishing gang, called 'Rock Phish'...

Until April, the Rock Phish crew favoured ".hk" domains. After the ".hk" domain registrar, HKDNR, began cleaning up its act the fraudsters started to look elsewhere. Their use of ".at" domain names has increased over recent weeks...

full article: http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2007/06...shing_row/

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