[xp84]

I'm imagining/advocating for blacklisting them for say, 12 months, and re-evaluating them at that point. This imposes the identical cost on the spammer as now (each "detection" costs them a year's domain registration) while allowing a reputation "reset" for innocent people who acquire haunted domains.

Yes, the spammers can sit on their domains once blacklisted, renew them, and redeploy their spam on them 12 months later, but they'd have nothing to gain from the reuse, since the names of their domains are just nonsense anyway.

[lazide]

Fair point.

I’m guessing that would complicate blacklist maintenance quite a bit, which is why we aren’t seeing it work that way.

Most of these blacklists (at least initially) were emergency type measures - ‘block these spammers’, then move on with life.

Blacklist maintainers would need to maintain date first seen/date last seen info, and purge/re-add correctly.

Technically, seems like an ‘append only’ type thing is what they’ve been doing for the most part.

As this evolves and the idea that these do need some kind of expiration or we end up with more maintenance headaches becomes more widely known, maybe eh?

Or if there is some kind of legal rules around it.