Two comments.
First, it's everyone's responsibility to do what's necessary
to prevent their operation from being an abuse source, vector,
or support service. That includes registrars, web hosts, DNS
providers, email services, consumer ISPs, webmail services,
corporations, end-users -- *everyon
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote:
Someone is... or trying to, at least, watch and contact the
responsible owners/registrars, but in some cases they aren't
apparently eager to assist.
Some registrars are good and some are bad and without better controls
being developed by ICA
Someone is... or trying to, at least, watch and contact the
responsible owners/registrars, but in some cases they aren't
apparently eager to assist.
That's why the ones that are caught end up in various
RBL's...
- ferg
-- Alex Rubenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Shouldn't someone be watchin
Shouldn't someone be watching these, though?
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# whois paypal.com
[...]
PAYPAL.COM.SV04.COM
PAYPAL.COM.LIMITSPEED.NET
PAYPAL.COM
While I agree in concept that this is not how the internet runs, and I am
not proposing a domain name police force be instituted, it seems to me
There are still remaining issues...
- ferg
-- Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> That's good, however, I regret that the issue had to be
> aired here because it didn't get attention it deserved
> through "proper channels" and elsewhere...
If I read the timestamps correctly, your pos
> That's good, however, I regret that the issue had to be
> aired here because it didn't get attention it deserved
> through "proper channels" and elsewhere...
If I read the timestamps correctly, your posting arrived via the NANOG
list *after* the domain had been pulled.
That's good, however, I regret that the issue had to be
aired here because it didn't get attention it deserved
through "proper channels" and elsewhere...
- ferg
-- Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> But it caught my eye that SOMEBODY at Yahoo! ought to be reviewing
> domain names like
> But it caught my eye that SOMEBODY at Yahoo! ought to be reviewing
> domain names like "bankofthewestupdate.com"
Registrars should as well, but this is not the way the Internet works.
Sometimes, this is a good thing, sometimes, it's not.
It seems that the A RR has been pulled around 2005-08-30
This would probably be better posted to NSP-SEC, but since
I'm not subscribed (and have tried at least once), I'll share
it here.
For what it's worth, I'm involved in several security and
anti-malware, anti-botnet, etc. group efforts, and I personally
think that this particlar situation has gaine
