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NetBeacon has been picked as the name for the DNS Abuse Institute’s forthcoming free abuse-reporting tool. The tool is expected to launch in early June, after software was donated by CleanDNS accelerated the development cycle, according to Institute director Graeme Bunton. The system was previously using the working title CART, for Centralized Abuse Reporting Tool, […]
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April 5, 2022 Kevin Murphy
abuse, cleandns, DNS Abuse Institute, Domain Services, netbeacon
The DNS Abuse Institute will soon launch a free service designed to make it easier to report abuse and for registries and registrars to act upon it. The Institute, which is funded by .org manager Public Interest Registry, is working on a system provisionally called CART, for Centralized Abuse Reporting Tool, an ambitious project that […]
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February 11, 2022 Kevin Murphy
abuse, cart, daar, dns abuse, DNS Abuse Institute, dnsai, Domain Registries, trusted notifier
ICANN has issued a public contract breach notice to a Turkish registrar over claims it’s not adequately responding to abuse reports. Atak Teknoloji showed a “failure to take reasonable and prompt steps to investigate and respond appropriately to reports of abuse” and did not provide ICANN with evidence it responds to abuse reports, ICANN said. […]
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February 3, 2022 Kevin Murphy
abuse, atak, compliance, Domain Registrars
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