[dylan604]

That sounds like a hell of an investigation, and now my curiosity is running. 100k domains sounds like an huge amount of logistics on their side to keep it all running. It would be interesting to read about how a spam company manages that kind of infrastructure compared to a "legit" company.

Legit company will always have internal struggles between dev/sales/marketing, so things just take longer and are much more draining to accomplish. I'd imaginge spam org just needs to have bare minimum stuff up to satisfy whatever need it is they have knowing that humans won't necessarily be perusing those domains, yet it's 100K domains. I could almost see something like this running more smoothly. I can also see it being run by small number of people that let things lapse and it's just barely hanging together. So many questions...

[tluyben2]

It is not very difficult to manage: a company of mine was bought by a squatter (I found out after dealing with a broker for the sale; I had to integrate it with their 'tech team' and walked away after) and for many years already, this all has been fairly easy to automate. The registars have apis, cloud flare has apis. There was 1 tech guy keeping it all up and running and he didn't have to do anything. It would register and provision with content automatically. There is really almost no work involved besides keeping money in the registrar account and the costs are only the domains probably, maybe they have a little hetzner load balanced setup with 2 machines but that's likely it.