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"Dumb", indeed. For quite some time now, I've been seeing referrer spam for a porn site hosted at free.dumb1.com. I usually just block those and hope that they go away. Well, not in this case.
On Saturday morning, on checking the logfiles, I found more of the same. So I decided to finally do something about it - and succeeded. As it turned out, dumb1.com is actually one of several domains owned by ChangeIP.com. You can register subdomains with them, which is apparently what our spammer here did. A quick look through their Terms Of Use indicated that - at least on paper - they would not tolerate spamming and hosting of porn sites.
So I wrote to their abuse department, indicating that one of their customers was using their service for just that. Imagine my surprise when I got back an email a mere 15 minutes(!) later in which they stated that they terminated that user's account. And as far as I can tell, they really did.
Excellent work on the part of ChangeIP.com. Thank you!
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