Spam from .us domains

[Paul A Sand]

> > Is anyone else getting hammered by spam saying it is from .us domains ?
> >  If have you figured a way to stop it yet ?

I’ve noticed an uptick, but the IPs seem to get listed by SpamHaus
pretty quickly, so the damage here is minor. 
There’s (of course) a lot of valid mail ending in .us.

For those of us who are easily amused, a random sample of domains:

    buildyournew-shednow.us
    getmoney-whenyouneedto.us
    trythisnew-kindoftubnow.us
    younewrate-drop-info.us
    yourecentpolicy-notice.us
    yourmustsee-autodealz.us
    yournewvision-healthinfo.us

We’re also seeing the same sort of thing from the .me TLD (Montenegro), but
the naming algorithm differs. Some hostnames:

    algal.futureexplain.me
    allseed.wrongwisdom.me
    fumingly.wetpicture.me
    interwarring.warmrake.me
    otoneurasthenia.cleandustpan.me
    polyploidy.amongstalk.me
    resought.bentwasher.me
    toyless.hangingexperience.me

A toyless hanging experience? Does not sound like fun.

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