On Jun 26, 2013 7:52 PM, "Frank Gadegast" <ripe-anti-spam-wg@powerweb.de> wrote:

Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:

Just want to note, that domainnames themself cant be
dangerous (of course using a similar name could cos
problems with trademarks and the like).

Its only the content thats dangerous, eMail or webpage.
So its more a problem of the people running the services
and these are either hacked sites or ISPs tolerating
or deliberatly hosting this content.

Asking a TLD registry to remove domainnames because
of pishing its then somehow to wrong place to start,
specially for Spamhaus, they should know better and
simply place all those IPs on their lists ...


BTW:
just found the service "Google Safe Browsing Alerts
for Network Administrators" where every AS owner can
register under
http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/alerts/
to receive notification about doubtful content
Google might find, when spidering your network.

This could be pretty usefull to remove pishing
and hacked sites for pretty quick.



Kind regards, Frank

There are of course multiple sides to that story as well.

Like a massive infestation of rock phish domains which, too, were
knowingly disregarding local law, and were present in rather massive
quantities on the .at ccTLD at that time.

http://www.spamhaus.org/organization/statement/7/

--srs

On Wednesday, June 26, 2013, Wilfried Woeber wrote:

    Erik Bais wrote:
    [...]
     > For those that want to read up on what actually happened on that
    specific
     > incident in Latvia (July/August 2010), have a read on the
    following open
     > letter from CERT.lv
     >
     > https://cert.lv/uploads/uploads/OpenLetter.pdf

    And this actually wasn't the only or the first "incident" with Spamhaus.
    They also tried similer *piep*^Wbullying against NIC.at before.

    Which actually has discredited Spamhaus in my personal opinion for sure,
    for knowingly disregarding local law, but that's slightly OT here - but
    maybe not...

     > Erik Bais

    Wilfried.



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--srs (iPad)