On Monday 07 July 2008 19:35:45 George Kirikos wrote: > > ICANN has recently posted Afilias' revised proposal regarding "abusive > use" of dot-info domain names: > > http://www.icann.org/registries/rsep/index.html#2008007
George, can you summarise if/how this policy defers from other registry operators? I've long been concerned at attempts to mitigate non-DNS abuses by manipulating the DNS. Not least it is unclear how an authoritative DNS server can be easily abused, except perhaps as part of the DDoS attack (and that is a protocol issue). If the existence of a domain name, rather than how it is used, is dangerous to someone then something is very badly engineered somewhere. We maintain the name servers for all our hosted zones in two distinct registries (.NET and .CO.UK), in order to try and mitigate possible problems with a registry. I note this isn't widely done by others providing Domain name hosting, and there are good arguments that it makes it theoretically easier to compromise our DNS service. Simon _______________________________________________ domains-gen mailing list [email protected] http://discuss.tucows.com/mailman/listinfo/domains-gen
