Why no comments in UGNN ?
Someone wrote in last week to ask why our comments are turned off. Rather than a lengthy explanation, the answer is spam and spam robots, and you'll understand when you see these two screen captures ...
Under Attack
Every hour, every day, most every blog and forum on the internet is under attack by spambots. They troll the internet looking for the word "comment" and then try to break in. Our MT installation has pretty good filtering and blocking. We turn away about a thousand rogue comment-bots a day. But there are always those who get through because of ICANN's domain tasting and criminal botnets.I clean them all out several times each week. Here's the first page of this morning's crop, or should I say crap:
Most of them simply don't make any sense at all. That's because the robot is loaded with random words and phrases intended to jack up Google rankings for the target web site. Also notice the domains. These seemingly random strings of characters making up the domain are generated by an automated domain register bots.
The criminal registrar or ISP takes advantage of ICANN's 5-day tasting program which allows the use of a domain for five days before payment is due. So the bot registers thousands of these domains, automatically generates a web page under each, sends a million or two spams. Then after 4 days, 11 hours and 55 minutes, the robot cancels all of the domain orders. At one minute after the 5 days ends, the bot comes back, re-registers them all, and off they go again.
Thousands and thousands of rogue domains, perpetually hosted, all automated, are never paid for but continue to earn clicks and Google rankings for porno sites, phishing fraud, junk pirated software and identity theft malware sites.
Here's an example of the detail:
What you don't see in the listing is that they've included links to several of their junk sites in the same post. By trolling the web, posting these when and where ever they can, they hope to snag a percentage of blogs or forums who don't have good security. If they can get a handful posted, they know they'll get a few clicks here and there. Most of all, they hope to raise high enough in the Google rankings that people go directly to the rogue sites.
So that's why we've turned commenting off.
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