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Inspiring news on the Anti-Abuse front

At ResellerClub, we have always tried to ensure that our services are not used for malicious purposes. In doing so, we have worked with some of the most respected organizations in the anti-abuse community to share intelligence and facilitate prompt action on problem domains.

One such eminent organization that we collaborate with is Legitscript.com, whose mission is to identify and expose illegal pharmacies on the Internet. Recently the LegitScript team shared with us some very encouraging results.

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In its efforts to combat illegal pharma sales online, LegitScript maintains and tracks a database of rogue Internet pharmacies. Six months ago, over 13% of domain names in their database were registered through ResellerClub. Today, after working closely with them to remedy this, only about 0.5% of domains (in their database of about 36000) are registered through ResellerClub! The most encouraging factor in this exercise was that off all the sites that were shut down in this period, 75% have remained shut. Meanwhile, the 25% that did turn back on, largely did so at other Registrars.

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The menace posed by the sale of potent, even dangerous drugs without proper prescription is undoubted, not to mention its obvious sidekicks (spam, anyone?). We have a conscious commitment to prevent the use of our services for such purposes. One factor that must be emphasized in this regard is the aid and cooperation that our Resellers have provided in combating these abusive domains. We are absolutely grateful for this; it gives us renewed vigor to work towards making the Internet a safer place.

So, if you see spam messages peddling cheap pills in your mailbox again, remember that you are doing your bit to make sure they are dealt with :)

  • Peg Mcguire

    If an organization like LegitScript has applauded you’ll then there must be some substance to it!

    Great job!

    btw…9% at Enom? Whoa! Thats bad news for them then…

  • http://www.builddesignawebsite.com Kevin

    This was a fun read actually, and bravo to you for taking a stand against illegal scripts and pills.
    Also: 9% at enom represents 9% of the sites that happened to move over, which in reality represents 9% of the 13% of the 36000 rogue websites in legitscript’s DB of websites they are tracking. This works out to roughly 422 websites hosted at enom that really shouldn’t be.
    Agreed though, they shouldn’t be hosting rogue websites, but larger hosts DO have a harder time keeping an eye on things (but DO take action when legal matters are at hand.).
    Great read. Just happened across from another link and this article caught my eye.
    G’day!
    kevin