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Spam and obscene profits

Spam: Let’s Re-Define ‘Obscene Profits’ I took a great call today with Garth Bruen of Knujon (“No Junk” spelled backwards). Garth’s volunteer organization monitors spam and works with Internet registrars to throttle the miscreants who fill our in-boxes with this junk. Garth gave me a great background...

Tags: Registrar, Spammer, Knujon, Garth, Go-Daddy, Internet, Spam, Domain Names, Cyberthreats, Security, Spam And Phishing, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-02-27

ICANN terminates EstDomains, Directi takes over 280k domains

Following ICANN's notice of termination sent to cybercrime-friendly domain registrar EstDomains in October, on the 24th of November the termination became a reality and EstDomains is no more. Despite the public concerns of who will take the 280,000 domains, and that includes the cybercrime facilitating ones, Directi's ResellerClub is new...

Tags: Registrar, ICANN, Domain, EstDomains, Directi, Security Community, Domain Names, Security, Internet, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-12-03

Estonian registrar gets a reprieve

ICANN has stayed the termination of Estonian registrar EstDomains, pending a review of the company's response. ICANN terminated the company after the president was convicted of fraud and money laundering. by Richard Koman

Tags: Registrar, ICANN, Litigation, Workforce Management, Business Operations, Human Resources, Richard Koman, Domain Name, Domain Names, Sales Channel, Internet, Sales

Blog posts 2008-10-30

Cybercrime friendly EstDomains loses ICANN registrar accreditation

Despite EstDomains persistent press releases during the last couple of days, next to the domain registrar's delayed response to the security community, on Thursday the ICANN has sent a notice of termination of their registrar accreditation agreement with EstDomains, following obtained court records stating that EstDomains president Vladimir Tsastsin has...

Tags: Registrar, Termination, ICANN, EstDomains, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-10-29

ICANN says hijacking attack due to breach at their registrar

ICANN says hijacking attack due to breach at their registrarSo...It figures... It almost always has to be something simple and stupid. Oh well. I hope they learned from it.

Tags: registrar, ICANN

Discussion threads 2008-07-09

ICANN says hijacking attack due to breach at their registrar

As we commented on, ICANN, the group that manages top-level domain TLD naming systems for the web, recently had several of its domains hijacked by a Turkish hacking group.  ICANN has now commented that the hijacking was due to a security breach at the registrar that manages those URLs.  From...

Tags: Registrar, ICANN, Attack, Security, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-08

ICANN says registrar was hacked

ICANN says registrar was hackedWhich registrar?I would bet Network Solutions. But I could be wrong.

Tags: registrar, ICANN

Discussion threads 2008-07-08

ICANN says registrar was hacked

Two weeks after ICANN's own domains were hijacked by Turkish hackers, the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers says it was its registrar -- not ICANN's servers themselves -- that were attacked. On June 26, a number of ICANN sites popped up with this message: ...

Tags: Registrar, ICANN, Attack, Security, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-07-08

Can fighting registrars win the spam wars?

Can fighting registrars win the spam wars?When is someone a registrar?When is someone a registrar? www.GoDaddy.com has a reseller program called Wild West Domains or something similar. For about $100 anyone can become a "registrar" through this program, with a website, etc., indicating the person is a registrar. ...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Spam, registrar, GoDaddy

Discussion threads 2008-06-10

Can fighting registrars win the spam wars?

Shouldn't every registrar have at least a street address on file and freely available through ICANN? And shouldn't ICANN have a complete list of registrar addresses online? by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Registrar, ICANN, Knujon, Hostgator, Cyberthreats, Spam, Internet, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-06-10

ICANN warning against registrar impersonation phishing attacks

How realistic is an attack that successfully hijacks a domain by social engineering the domain's registrar? Pretty realistic according to ICANN's recently released advisory on preventing Registrar Impersonation Phishing Attacks : In this Advisory, SSAC describes generic forms of this type of attack. We consider types and formats of...

Tags: Registrar, ICANN, Domain, Social Engineering, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-05-28

Top ten worst spam registrars notified by ICANN

In a reponse to the recently released cluster analysis of the top 10 worst domain registrars in terms of spam and junk content hosting domains, the ICANN has taken steps to approach the non-compliant registrars : More than half of those registrars named had already been contacted by ICANN...

Tags: Registrar, ICANN, Domain, Domain Name, Domain Names, Internet, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-05-26

SSAC Advisory on Registrar Impersonation Phishing Attacks

This paper describes a form of phishing attack that targets domain name registrants. The attacker impersonates a domain name registrar and sends an expected or anticipated correspondence to a registrar's customer a registrant regarding a domain name related matter. Examples of expected correspondence include a notice of pending expiration of...

Tags: Registrar, Domain Name, Phishing, Domain Names, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Internet

White papers 2008-05-01

Liberated Syndication: down, down, down

According to their website, "Liberated Syndication is a premiere media distribution service built from the ground up with DIY content creators in mind." Unfortunately, a DNS configuration error caused the site to be unreachable by customers for an extended period of...

Tags: Registrar, DNS, Server, E-mail, Computer, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2007-08-25

KFWhois 3.1.0 (Windows)

KF Whois makes it easy to look up and store domain registration details. It tracks changes to domain registrations and warns you when they are about to expire. Searching for accurate domain registration details is harder than ever. Deregulation has led to a rapid expansion in the number internet registrars,...

Tags: Registrar, Domain, Whois, Microsoft Windows, KeyFocus, Internet

Software downloads 2006-11-21

Registrars accused of hoarding 74,000 domain names

Registrars accused of hoarding 74,000 domain namesRegistrars accused of hoarding 74,000 domain namesThats great but what happens now? Are they going to release these back to the public and disband registrars? I'm actually a little surprised that the number is 74,000. I was expecting something higher than that.Hey!...

Tags: Domain names, registrar, domain name

Discussion threads 2006-07-25

DDOS moves upstream

Despite the warning of the last three years major online businesses continue to be disrupted by Distributed Denial of Service attacks DDoS. The lastest to be under attack is Joker.com. From their website: Joker.com currently experiences massive distributed denial of service attacks against nameservers. Joker is a German domain registrar...

Tags: distributed denial of service, attack

Blog posts 2006-03-27

Top registrars by new domains added between Sep 2005 and Feb 2006: GoDaddy, DirectNIC, eNom

Top registrars by new domains added between Sep 2005 and Feb 2006: GoDaddy, DirectNIC, eNomREinteresting that even having the best prices and being around some years now, 1&1 is not one of the top registrars. I guess they are more concerned about their hosting business, of maybe people got tired...

Tags: registrar, Sep 2005, DirectNIC, Feb 2006, eNom, GoDaddy

Discussion threads 2006-03-27

ICANN told to clamp down on dodgy domain names

ICANN told to clamp down on dodgy domain namesIt gives me warm *fuzzies*knowing how secure everything is after these few years we have spent without the towers. After the realization of how prevalent ID theft is and how vulnerable or software industry is overall. I would like...

Tags: Domain names, ICANN, domain, domain name, registrar, Whois

Discussion threads 2005-12-07

ISP suffers apparent domain hijacking

ISP suffers apparent domain hijackingSounds like ICAAN and VeriSign need to pay attention...... to their customers and THEIR concerns rather than trying to hijack the entire Internet for their own profit. And that goes for every registrar out there.Come on, get with it. I got better service from...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Domain names, Network Solutions Inc., registrar, domain, ISP2

Discussion threads 2005-01-16