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Each day the worm generated a list of domain names from the date, tried a few hundred of them, and expected its authors to have registered one. The first variants made 250 a day across a handful of top-level domains. By March 2009 it was generating 50,000 a day across 110, and trying 500.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe answer was to get there first. A working group of Microsoft, ICANN, the registries, Symantec, F-Secure and a long list of others, formed on 12 February 2009, ran the same algorithm every day and pre-registered or blocked the names before the authors could. Fifty thousand a day, in a hundred and ten countries and registries, on a schedule that never ended. Microsoft put $250,000 on the authors that same week.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt infected somewhere between nine and fifteen million machines by January 2009, and nobody has ever been charged. What it was for is still not clear. 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