Monthly Archives: March 2021

Happy Birthday, Scientific Spam

Today marks the seventh anniversary of this project.
The decline in queries continues. In 2020, the IP address blocklist saw 1.459 billion queries, which is just short of four million a day, down from 1.7B the year before (15% less). The drop was even more marked for the domain name list, going from 1.4B to 457M (1.25M per day). If the same trend continues, by the end of 2021 we might consider the experiment concluded.