Sunday, February 1, 2009

Some Magic Numbers

I've estimated 8-10 new domains per hour during "idle spam time", that being the time when spammer are apparently not actively sending spam, but letting the bots do the work.

Given 24 hours in a day and 365 days in a year, that is 8760 hours per year.

This means about 87,600 but my numbers indicate something much lower - about 15,000 per year.

More stats needed.

Even so, it mean between $150,000 and $876,000 per year just on domain names.

tc

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