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[nc-intake] Spamming
Hiro, Michael and Tony,
Could you comment on this back to the NC Intake committee to help them form
a judgement as to whether this should be on the NC agenda for a future
meeting?
Philip.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Melih Oztalay" <meliho@speedlink.net>
To: <whoiscomments@icann.org>; <agenda@dnso.org>
Cc: "ISP/C Members Mailing List" <ISPC-MEMBERS@ispc.org>
Sent: 26 February 2001 08:02
Subject: [agenda] [Fwd: Registrars & Domain Name Registration]
Hi,
To be perfectly honest, I am not sure who should get this email. I am
forwarding you a message that our company, SpeedLink, has posted with
the Internet Service Providers Consortium Members List.
The information is directly related to the manner in which domains are
registered, specifically by Spammers. Spammers who can arbitrarily
register any domain, any contact information and more importantly ANY
DNS SERVER NAME AND IP ADDRESS WITHOUT THE VERIFICATION BY AN
AUTHORITATIVE DNS SERVER!!!!
This practice must stop as ISP's are being implicated in Spamming
situations, although, they have absolutely NOTHING to do with any
portion of that spam. How is it possible that we are allowing
spammers another loop hole and the ability to further hide their true
identity?
Again, it is possible that this message is being directed to the
incorrect location; however, your assistance to: (1) read this email
and the forwarded message (2) determine who should receive this
message is greatly appreciated.
Further information is available upon request. Your action is
requested.
Thanks.
Hi,
....we have encountered and interesting problem that has implicated
our network in spamming situations. Our company is a Corporate only
ISP primarily servicing the Detroit Metropolitan region and spam is
not even in our vocabulary. We have found that domains are being
registered with either our DNS servers as primary or IP addresses on
our network that are bogus. Spammers are able to loosely register
domains and enter Primary DNS servers without any consequence or
checking system.
The problem basically lies in the fact that REGISTRARS do not require
a authoritative response from a DNS server before registration is
completed of a new domain. This was the case several years ago;
however, in 1997 InterNIC/Network Solutions stopped requiring that
feature and the new Registrars have followed suit, registering
anything they can get their hands on for money.
Spammers have identified this as a loop hole and basically enter
Primary servers that are bogus, however, 2nd, 3rd and 4th servers that
may be bogus too; one of them obviously is real. They then have the
option to diguise themselves very easily.
The problem this creates is ISP's are being implicated in situations
that they have no dealings with to begin with. This is caused by
"amateurs" that are trying to use silly things like Traceroute and
Ping to determine if there is a response, not completely understanding
other tools like NSLookup and other DNS related utilities.
I know it has caused us a lot of grief and my guess is that if this
practice picks-up amongst spammers we are going to find a lot more
problems coming up. This mess with the Registrars is going to come to
a head, its just a matter of time, money and I'm sure the courts.
If anyone has feedback or thoughts on this matter, please respond.
Thanks.
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