Updated March 3, 2000
The Network Abuse Clearinghouse is intended to help the Internet community to report and control network abuse and abusive users.
Since the best place to report abusive activity varies from one system to another, we're trying to keep a master database of reporting addresses for users throughout the net to use. The database is provided in three forms:
See How do I submit contact information for a domain?
Decoding single-number network addresses
A lot of junk e-mail now attempts to disguise the names of web sites
they advertise by showing the web site's address as a single large number
rather than by its name.
Use this
simple decoder script
to find the host number and name.
Some semi-automated abuse reporting tools
Some tools to help figure out where a message came from and send complaints.
Intrusion Detection and Prevention Resources
A site that provides end-users a place to report intrusion attempts,
exploits, hacks and portscans.
Has a large list of software/hardware protection
which is sectioned by operating system, and one
of the largest trojan port/exploit port databases online.
Books about network management and spam fighting
Here are some book reviews about books that both
directly address spam fighting and related network management topics,
with links if you want to buy them.
The Supreme Court on Commercial Speech.
The Congressional Research Service of the
Library of Congress has prepared a very extensive
Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States.
This page extracts the section on First Amendment cases related to commercial speech.
The Responsible
Net Commerce Site
Be sure to visit our sister site at
spam.abuse.net.
The spam tools mailing list
Abuse.net hosts a mailing list for people interested in developing and deploying
anti-spam tools.
Visit the list's home page
for more details and access to the message archive.
A long time ago there was a list of abusive domains and providers at spam.abuse.net but it was discontinued over a year ago due to legal threats from some of the most abusive providers.
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