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a new flavor of comment spam

Lately I've been getting comment spam from people, with names, and nonexistent URLs. For example, I would get a comment from "John Smith" with e-mail johnsmith@gmail.com, and URL of www.johnsmith.com. The URL is not a registered domain, it goes to site unreachable. What are people gaining from this?

Also, there is a bug in my version of mt-blacklist where if you put just a period in the comment text, and nothing else, the "Remove from blacklist" link does not appear in the notification to me.

What evil doings are afoot?