Lord_Majestic - 11:11 pm on Sep 25, 2007 (gmt 0)

If the conditions exist for them to make money though (or gain some other benefit from this activity), then their arrest or whatever would simply make way for a new generation of crooks.

They engage in these activities because they don't get arrested and they don't go to prison - the worst thing that happens is that their cheap 50 cent .CN domain gets blacklisted. Big deal! Some of those guys are breaking laws by cracking sites and putting there links to their own spamsites in hope to get ranked high - this is happening with .EDU domains a lot: what Google needs to do is to put a price on their heads, basically a bounty payable to anyone who would bring those guys to justice - Al Capone got in jail for tax evasion rather than murder, same approach can be used here - Google/Yahoo/MSN just need to pool up and put bounties on their heads.