Written by Sue Walsh
July 3, 2009

Researchers at the University of Alabama say almost all of the websites advertised through spam are hosted in China on servers protected by bulletproof hosting. That means that the ISPs who provide hosting to spammers and malicious domains simply don’t care and ignore abuse complaints and take down orders.

The researchers reviewed millions of spam message and found that over 69,000 unique domains hosted the websites found in the spams and of those, 70% were located in China, making it a definite spam haven.

“It is very normal that more than one-third of the domain names we see each day in spam messages come from China,” wrote Gary Warner, director of research in computer forensics at the university. “When one also considers the many ‘.com’ and ‘.ru’ domain names which are also hosted in China, the problem is much worse.”

Continued @ All Spammed Up