China may be doing well in some industries like manufacturing, and electronics, but one area in which they utterly dominate is SPAM.  In fact, with the way things are headed, I don’t doubt that SPAM hosting could easily be one of their best industries ever.   Currently, China is responsible for sending 2/3 of all SPAM, according to Gary Warner.  It’s a serious crisis.

This SPAM involvement ranges from using .cn domains to the actual hosting of it.  Either way, it would seem that the Chinese government may not be fully aware, but if you are like me, you know that China is a synonym for SPAM.  So, why would their government not be attuned to it?

Much of the SPAM activity revolves around the principle that the hosting and support services for spammers are simply not looking at what their customers are doing.  And for a good reason.  Spamming is a lucrative business when scaled large, so hosting services are happy with good business.

In fact, as of just a few years ago, Verio used to host entire spam farm clusters here in the USA as I had a good friend quit working there when they continued to send the SPAM.  He said he was going to report Verio for knowingly doing this, so they fired him.  Spamming can be good money.

And at $0.15 a domain name, and “bulletproof” hosting (which won’t be taken down even if someone complains), China is possibly the best option for spammers; or in some cases, for those that run a botnet even.

As less and less companies around the world are willing to host SPAM servers, China gets more and more business.  This lack of options can easily raise hosting rates, which in turn may dampen spammers ability to send as much SPAM.

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