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ICANN Gets Tough With Shady Registrar

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2008-05-20 06:53:16 by Editor in Cheap Hack
ICANN has put a registrar on notice that they are in violation of the Registrar Accreditation Agreement and subject to termination in 15 days The registrar is Red Register , a registrar with a troubled legal history. They are currently being sued by Microsoft for registering 125 names that typosquat Microsoft's trademarks According to the letter...
 
Tags: registrar, registrar business, registrar red register, icann, red register, registrar accreditation agreement, icann notice, domain, domain redregister
 
 
 
 
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GoDaddy Is the First Escrowed Registrar

2008-02-27 10:13:19 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
Many months ago we described how ICANN was going to set up a Registrar Data Escrow Service to deal with the potential for registrar failure. Some months later they approved Iron Mountain as a service provider. Now GoDaddy has announced that they are the first to back up all of their customer data under the requirements of the program. The...
 
Tags: godaddy, months ago, months, customer data, potential, iron mountain, irresponsible registrars, program, set
 
 
 
 
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GoDaddy Is the First Escrowed Registrar

2008-02-27 10:13:19 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
Many months ago we described how ICANN was going to set up a Registrar Data Escrow Service to deal with the potential for registrar failure. Some months later they approved Iron Mountain as a service provider. Now GoDaddy has announced that they are the first to back up all of their customer data under the requirements of the program. The...
 
Tags: godaddy, months ago, months, customer data, potential, iron mountain, irresponsible registrars, program, set
 
 
 
 
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Adding webwise.net into the CNI

2008-04-05 14:13:01 by Richard Clayton in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
The way in which the Phorm system works (see yesterdays blog post ) creates an interesting, and possibly unexpected, risk for the ISPs that decide to go ahead and deploy the system Quite clearly , web browsing from within these ISPs now depends on the correct functioning of the Layer 7 switch and Phorms Anonymiser machine. This should not be too...
 
Tags: domain names, purchase domain names, net, dns, dns forgery issue, domain, dns forgery attacks, webwise, net domain
 
 
 
 
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Gambling Domains Seized by Kentucky

2008-09-28 07:32:49 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
From reports, it appears that Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear has attempted to seize 141 gambling-related domain names under a state law that allows for seizure of items used for illegal gambling. It appears that the seizure order ( click here for a copy of the initial order ) was signed by a circuit judge, but later reports indicate that the...
 
Tags: domains, kentucky, domains pursuant, domain, domain names, kentucky engage, internet commerce association, seizure, commerce
 
 
 
 
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Comcast.net not Hacked, DNS Records Hijacked

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2008-05-30 07:58:46 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
Two days ago in a show off move, the Kryogenics team managed to change the DNS records of Comcast.net , and consequently, redirect traffic to third-party servers, which in this incident only served a defaced-looking like page, and denied email services to Comcast's millions of email users for a period of three hours The message they appear to...
 
Tags: comcast, net, access comcast, network solutions account, network solutions, net domain address, network solutions comments, domain, domain registrations
 
 
 
 
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The ICANN Responds to the DNS Hijacking, Its Blog Under Attack

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2008-07-07 06:27:00 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
Last week, the ICANN has issued an official statement regarding last month's DNS hijackings of some of their domains The DNS redirect was a result of an attack on ICANN's registrar's systems . A full, confidential, security report from that registrar has since been provided to ICANN with respect to this attack It would appear the attack was...
 
Tags: blog, attack, icann, wordpress blog, icann blog, recent attack, dns redirect, redirect, software wordpress
 
 
 
 
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Spamhaus litigation: Will spammers get a second wind?

2006-10-16 01:38:55 by Administrator in Email security & compliance blog
 
No doubt you have already heard about the court case against Spamhaus by emarketing firm e360Insight. Regardless of the merits of e360s claims, shutting down Spamhaus cannot be a good idea. Spamhaus currently has 650 million users (including many corporate users) and blocks 50 billion spam messages per day. The majority of these messages are...
 
Tags: spamhaus, spamhaus litigation events, spamhaus claims, spamhaus website, spamhaus registrar, spam, billion spam messages, e360insight, e360insight claims
 
 
 
 
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Watching the registrars

2008-01-11 00:00:00 by Mark Gibbs in Network World on Security
 
Network Solutions has once again shown that it can't be trusted in its role as a domain name registrar Register for a WAN Acceleration Technology Primer Advertisement This paper explores the differences between commonly used WAN acceleration technologies
 
Tags: wan acceleration technologies, paper explores, network solutions, advertisement, shown, register, differences, domain, registrar