CircleID

Returning clothes after using them for a party - not as good an analogy as the one John Levine used in http://www.circleid.com/posts/domain_in_bad_taste/ - it is more like running a condiment business by scooping up free ketchup packets from every diner in town.

> Anti-spam experts also suggest that spammers and scam
> artists are turning to the loophole to register new names
> every couple of days to avoid detection.

Huge numbers of these are on moniker, by the way.  Any domain that's registered on moniker is typically not going to emit email - and whatever percentage of those domains emit email, is most likely to be spam [or blog, search engine etc spam]. 

http://www.silicon.com/research/specialreports...

That article was quite emphatic about fingering Moniker as the registrar for several blog spam sites.

However, Monte Cahn, the CEO of Moniker.com, told silicon.com Moniker Privacy Services does not actually operate the sites but is simply the default registrant for its customers who, for whatever reason, want to operate anonymously. In this case anonymity would appear to be preferred due to the controversial way these sites are promoting themselves. Cahn declined to tell silicon.com what action, if any, would be taken against the owners of these sites.