Project Honeypot Spam Domains List - PHSDL ™
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I first like to explain how this project took birth and what is the project set
up to do.
This project was born out of necessity to fight Spam messages that were posted by automated scripts to our Travel in Asia forum We were getting bombarded by approximately 500 messages a day with porn, drugs, tobacco, and other sub industry messages with domain URL's to the offensive content Websites. We tried deleting the messages but it came to be a losing proposition, the offenders just persisted with their disregard of our forum and our domain; hence, PHSDL ™ was born.
I, Igor Berger the president of IVB IT SOLUTIONS have written a simple PHP script that works with our incubator forum database to harvest Spam domains that are retrieved from the offending post messages. Each domain is meticulously examined by a human editor to avoid false positives.
To be able to harvest the domain from offensive post messages I had to create a number of tools to facilitate the procedure. The tools are: absolute URL parser to extract offensive domains from Spam messages, database update module to mass update PHSDL ™ database with offensive domains, mass deletion module to delete offensive messages by predefined parameter like user id, user IP address, offensive domain name. All these tools are for administration use!
For the public I designed a hot Spam domains list and our master database search module. I also designed a proprietary Spam filter that is made to delete the Spam posts before they are submitted to forum or blog database.
PHSDL ™ Spam filter v 1.0 is now available to the public to use. If you are a non commercial entity or a small business with five or less employees you can use plugin free of charge under our GNU license agreement. That is a binding contract between PHSDL ™ and the intended user to use the plugin with good intentions and not to modify or redistribute it. PHSDL ™ is authorized to terminate the agreement with the said so user at any time without prior notice. HSDL ™ will not be held liable for any damages or malice that occurs to the user's domain, software or reputation. We do provide the product with warranty that it will function as intended to prevent the submission of a Spam message to the owner's forum or domain based on the 20,000 Spam domains in our database. Our Spam domain database is constantly updated with new Spam violators. The deletion module is not perfect and there is a tendency that a Spammer of a owner's forum or blog will use a domain that is not in our database. To give an example of our incubator forum: from having around 500 Spam post a day it has dropped to 5 posts a day. We are intent to keep updating our database with Spam domains to keep it current.
Using this plugin a forum or a blog owner has nothing to lose but only to gain. Installing this plugin on the owner's property will allow the forum or blog administrator to comment on their forum or blog instead of wasting time deleting unwanted Spam.
The Spam deletion plugin is very easy to use and install. Please email us the request for the plugin adnim@phsdl.net and we will send you the 10 line plugin script with a password to our Spam filter module. The plugin works in away that nothing is modified or changed on the owner's forum or blog. The message fromthe owner is submitted to PHSDL ™ Spam filter module and if there is no red flag the message is allowed to be posted to the owner's forum or blog. If the posting message is flaged with a Spam domain the poster is redirected to Project Honeypot Spam Domains Hot List with a warning that the Spammer domain has been caught in the PHSDL ™. This plugin will work with all forums and boards, like phpBB, vBulliten, SMF, Wordpress, Typepad, etc.
If you would like to see how the Spam filter works, please take one of the domains on the Spam list and post it in a message to our Travel in Asia forum
If you are a major developer or a content provider company, and you are interested in licensing this technology for commercial usage please contact us for discussion.
PHSDL ™ v 1.0 is now online and ready to use. Let's work together to eliminate Internet Spam.
This project was born out of necessity to fight Spam messages that were posted by automated scripts to our Travel in Asia forum We were getting bombarded by approximately 500 messages a day with porn, drugs, tobacco, and other sub industry messages with domain URL's to the offensive content Websites. We tried deleting the messages but it came to be a losing proposition, the offenders just persisted with their disregard of our forum and our domain; hence, PHSDL ™ was born.
I, Igor Berger the president of IVB IT SOLUTIONS have written a simple PHP script that works with our incubator forum database to harvest Spam domains that are retrieved from the offending post messages. Each domain is meticulously examined by a human editor to avoid false positives.
To be able to harvest the domain from offensive post messages I had to create a number of tools to facilitate the procedure. The tools are: absolute URL parser to extract offensive domains from Spam messages, database update module to mass update PHSDL ™ database with offensive domains, mass deletion module to delete offensive messages by predefined parameter like user id, user IP address, offensive domain name. All these tools are for administration use!
For the public I designed a hot Spam domains list and our master database search module. I also designed a proprietary Spam filter that is made to delete the Spam posts before they are submitted to forum or blog database.
PHSDL ™ Spam filter v 1.0 is now available to the public to use. If you are a non commercial entity or a small business with five or less employees you can use plugin free of charge under our GNU license agreement. That is a binding contract between PHSDL ™ and the intended user to use the plugin with good intentions and not to modify or redistribute it. PHSDL ™ is authorized to terminate the agreement with the said so user at any time without prior notice. HSDL ™ will not be held liable for any damages or malice that occurs to the user's domain, software or reputation. We do provide the product with warranty that it will function as intended to prevent the submission of a Spam message to the owner's forum or domain based on the 20,000 Spam domains in our database. Our Spam domain database is constantly updated with new Spam violators. The deletion module is not perfect and there is a tendency that a Spammer of a owner's forum or blog will use a domain that is not in our database. To give an example of our incubator forum: from having around 500 Spam post a day it has dropped to 5 posts a day. We are intent to keep updating our database with Spam domains to keep it current.
Using this plugin a forum or a blog owner has nothing to lose but only to gain. Installing this plugin on the owner's property will allow the forum or blog administrator to comment on their forum or blog instead of wasting time deleting unwanted Spam.
The Spam deletion plugin is very easy to use and install. Please email us the request for the plugin adnim@phsdl.net and we will send you the 10 line plugin script with a password to our Spam filter module. The plugin works in away that nothing is modified or changed on the owner's forum or blog. The message fromthe owner is submitted to PHSDL ™ Spam filter module and if there is no red flag the message is allowed to be posted to the owner's forum or blog. If the posting message is flaged with a Spam domain the poster is redirected to Project Honeypot Spam Domains Hot List with a warning that the Spammer domain has been caught in the PHSDL ™. This plugin will work with all forums and boards, like phpBB, vBulliten, SMF, Wordpress, Typepad, etc.
If you would like to see how the Spam filter works, please take one of the domains on the Spam list and post it in a message to our Travel in Asia forum
If you are a major developer or a content provider company, and you are interested in licensing this technology for commercial usage please contact us for discussion.
PHSDL ™ v 1.0 is now online and ready to use. Let's work together to eliminate Internet Spam.
Igor Berger
Project Administrator
PHSDL ™