Somewhat astounding....

[MountainDon]

While researching a spammer I came across an interesting website.   http://domain-daily.com

This site has listings of all domain names that were registered on any particular date. Would you believe that on June 30, 2010 there were 98820 new domains registered.     I'd like to have a penny for each one all year. Maybe even a half cent. A tenth.

[Don_P]

Don,
You had a pair yesterday and I've seen the same thing on another forum. It is obvious there is a spammer's "forum" somewhere where they are passing around tips and vulnerabilities of different forum software. If you find it I'd like to know.

[MountainDon]

I haven't yet found a forum where spammers trade info. I have seen sites that sell software that spammers can use to auto-register and auto-spam though. Google 'xrumer'. I also came across a forum that contained nothing but spam posts. No how-to's, just an entire site full of all the kinds of spam that happens. I couldn't see the point except as maybe a test bed.    I think I have a bookmark for it someplace.

[John Raabe]

With all those domains being registered it is no wonder sites like GoDaddy.com are booming.

I did a Google search for "forum spam resources for spammers" and encouragingly got only links to controlling spam or anti-spam resources.

Maybe I'm being naive with such a search - there are no doubt shared resources for the members of the secret clubs.