Overview of spam from Digex.net

15 Feb 2006

Note: Automated spam monitoring stopped several years ago. These web pages are maintained for historical reasons. Some may be updated from time to time as news about the individual sites becomes available.

No spam today

General information about Digex.net

Digex is a major ISP and Network Service Provider. They are the host of the Babylon-X porn spammer.

Ownership & Contact Info
Site history

Ownership & Contact Info

Whois identifies Digex as

DIGEX, Inc. (DIGEX1-DOM)
   One Digex Plaza
   Beltsville, MD 20705
   US

   Domain Name: DIGEX.NET

   Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
      Hostmaster Role Account  (HRA21-ORG)  dns@DIGEX.NET
      tel.: 301-847-5000, Fax- - 301-847-5082
   Billing Contact:
      Hostmaster Role Account  (HRA21-ORG)  dns@DIGEX.NET
      tel.: 301-847-5000, Fax- - 301-847-5082

   Domain servers in listed order:

   NS.DIGEX.NET                 164.109.1.3
   NS2.DIGEX.NET                164.109.10.23

Site history

Sept 1999: Babylon-X on board.

To report spam, contact abuse@digex.net

A complete history may also be available.

General notes:

Only a small subset of usenet (261 groups) was sampled. Only articles that hadn't been cancelled yet were counted. Actual spam may have been much greater.
Heuristics that detect single-posted articles are, by their very nature, somewhat shaky. Innocent articles may be tagged as spam because they share certain characteristics or keywords with actual spam. In particular, a posted spam complaint that includes the spam in its entirety will very often be identified as spam.
Some posts may be forgeries intended to look like they came from Digex.net.
The first entry in the history file is not used to compute peak or average spam counts, as this entry covers an unknown number of days. This may cause an apparent disreprency between spam totals and spam averages.

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