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"As if spam wasn't problematic enough, it's now causing problems for DNS servers. It seems that some spammers are sending out spam from a domain that doesn't exist. They wait some period of time, and then register the non-existent domain, scoop up a few sales, and then abandon it. They hope this makes it harder to track them down. Of course, it also makes it harder to track down their DNS entry... and that's apparently causing extra stress on DNS servers who are often overwhelmed with requests for entries on domains that simply don't exist."

The Domain Name System or DNS is a system that stores information about host names and domain names in a kind of distributed database on networks, such as the Internet. Most importantly, it provides an IP address for each host name, and lists the mail exchange servers accepting e-mail for each domain.