I am the originator of the Black-Hole DNS Project which Matt Jonkman was kind enough to host.

I started the list as a way to give back to the open source community, especially bleedingsnort, as I extensively used their sigs but suck at writing my own

With Matt leaving, I also lost the ability to update the list through CVS. Due to the uncertainty of the future of bleedingthreats, I made the decision to create a new domain for the dns-blacklist at malwaredomains.com.

Although this is now costing me money to host on my own, I also did not want to be immediately tied to a single vendor, especially one which I did not have prior relationship.

I know this would cause some problems for users, so I emailed the bleeding-sigs and other mailing lists about the new domain. I am now posting to as many boards as possible (such as this one).

Matt is actively working on his new projects, and we are actively working on keeping the professional relationship going. I hope his new projects will contain a sandbox where he can continue to feed the BH-DNS malware domain list with active domains.....


Regards
D Glosser
malwaredomains.com