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SpamHaus has revealed the most-abused TLDs and registrars in its second-quarter report on botnets. The data shows huge growth in abuse at Verisign’s .com and the fast-growing NameSilo, which overtook Namecheap to top the registrar list for the fi...
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July 15, 2021 Kevin Murphy
abuse, Domain Registrars, Namecheap, NameSilo, Spamhaus
ICANN is pinging the community for feedback on proposed Whois reforms that would change how people request access to private registrant data. The fundamental question is: given everything you know about the proposed System for Standardized Access and D...
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July 9, 2021 Kevin Murphy
abuse, Domain Policy, gdpr, odp, ssad
Registrars will be asked to account for abusive domain names found on their services, under a new ICANN security audit. ICANN says it will soon send requests for information to 153 registrars, asking them to provide documentation showing how they dealt...
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January 18, 2021 Kevin Murphy
abuse, audit, compliance, Domain Registrars
After 11 years on Twitter, we are now blocked by domain registrar NameCheap. The trigger: We pointed out abusive domain registrations – at a discount – and the pattern is typically the same: NameCheap as the domain registrar, Cloudflare as ...
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July 14, 2020 DomainGang
abuse, Editorial, Namecheap, Spam
Verisign is to get the right to raise the price of .com domains by 7% per year, under a new contract with ICANN. The deal, announced this hour, will also see Verisign pay ICANN $20 million over five years, starting in 2021, “to support ICANN̵...
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January 3, 2020 Kevin Murphy
abuse, consolidate, Domain Registries, pics, registry agreement
SpamHaus, a global keeper of domain and IP violations, maintains a list of abusive behavior originating from a large variety of gTLDs and TLDs. How does SpamHaus measure that type of negative performance among domain extensions? The abusive behavior of...
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December 30, 2019 DomainGang
abuse, dot .TOP, Spam, Spamhaus, top 10 most abused TLDs
Roughly 5% of gTLD registry operators have been doing no abuse monitoring, despite contractual requirements to do so, a recent ICANN audit has found. ICANN checked with 1,207 registries — basically all gTLDs — between November 2018 and June...
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September 18, 2019 Kevin Murphy
abuse, audit, daar, Domain Registries
ICANN and its contracted parties need to do more to tackle security threats, write Dave Piscitello and Lyman Chapin of Interisle Consulting. The ICANN Registry and Registrar constituencies insist that ICANN’s role with respect to DNS abuse is limited b...
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September 16, 2019 Dave Piscitello and Lyman Chapin
abuse, Domain Policy, Guest Post, interisle
SpamHaus, a global keeper of domain and IP violations, maintains a list of abusive behavior originating from a large variety of gTLDs and TLDs. How does SpamHaus measure that type of negative performance among domain extensions? The abusive behavior of...
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December 28, 2018 DomainGang
abuse, top 10 most abused TLDs
A small group of large technology companies including Microsoft and Facebook have demanded that ICANN Compliance take a closer look at AlpNames, the budget registrar regularly singled out as a spammers’ favorite. The ad hoc coalition, calling its...
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March 7, 2018 Kevin Murphy
abuse, alpnames, Domain Registrars, eBay, Famous Four Media, independent compliance working party, Spam