Free hosts need to be vigilant
Lately we’ve seen a lot of free hosts being misused. I’m betting some of those have a high percentage of spammy hosts on them. And since most free hosts are funded by advertising, it can’t be good business to host spammy sites, when many of them even script their pages so the free host’s advertising will never be visible.
So, I propose that free hosts need to check for spammy sites.
Search Google for the main domains, and check out spam on blogs. Here’s one search phrase that would yield a crop of blogspam for one of those free hosts:
“dk3.+com” blog vicodin
You can do similar searches for:
poker
casino
porn
cialis
And other typical phrases.
Then, check out the site, see how it’s coded and who registered it. Take out all sites registered at the same time - or other times - from the same IP number. Double check the names that those are spammy site names.
There are SO many things a free webhost could do to keep the spam down. But it will take a human body to think it through, and to at least have a look over the site names before terminating.
So, any chance the free hosts will start to do this?
Because, at this rate, the internet is so filled with spam and spammy sites, it’s embarassing. I mean, what’s the ratio by now? Anyone?
OK, so blogthing isn’t your typical free webhost per-se, but we’re trying to help fight back against the spammers over yonder.
Hi Jamie,
Not sure you’re the one who made that list or not, but those who made it may want to do some things different.
First of all, figure out if the domain is owned by the spammer or not. If it is, then only list the domain, not the subdomains.
If the domain isn’t owned by the spammer, then list the subdomains, or the folder - whatever fits.
Also remember to take out the . before the domain. The list is a bit inconsistent right now.
It’s a great thing that you’re vigilant. And if you used the pinappleproxy block you’d be even safer, since that takes care of domains they haven’t begun spamming yet. And blocking some high anonymity proxies as we identify them is also smart.