adriaant - 10:03 am on May 14, 2003 (gmt 0)

I'm trying to ban sites by domain name, since there are recently lots of reference spammers.

I have, for example, the rule:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(www\.)?.*word.*\.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [F,L]

which should ban sites such as
www.nasty.com
www.verynastystuff.com
www.i-am-nasty.com

and so on.

However, it is not working, so I am sure I did not setup a proper pattern match rule. Anyone care to advise?