Morning Vernon,
Could you expand on "zapping spammers" and [registrar name]'s proxy
product? Is this a reference to the provisioning of non-unique data
(registrar agent contact data) rather than unique (registrant) data
to the registrar's whoisdb (RRP provisioning) or registry's whoisdb
(EPP provisioning), or some administrative DoS based upon contract
T&C breach by the (proxied) registrant (or its agents)?
registration service. The operators of .BZ have recently shocked the
world by terminating a spammer on the pretex of a bad contact address.
Ha! I'll have to pass that along to Edmon. I only learned last month his
outfit operates .bz. (Originally a "cunning plan" by some Baldrik(_at_)VGRS
for market confusion when Neu* launched .biz).
There are others who get less attention because they are not popular
among spammers.
Any data? We can correlate it against Lotter's surveys, the RIPE data,
etc.
Registries and registrars can gain or lose because a registered domain
is used for spam, because the reputation of the domain suffers. Users
who really hate spam and see only spam from a new TLD are likely to
blacklist it. I suspect that domain names in .bz and .biz are worth
a lot less to organizations who want to send legitimate mail than
names in .com because of this effect.
Personally, I think repurposing ccTLDs risks failure to meet the duty and
trustee lnaguage of section 3, rfc1591. For many ccTLDs that have been
repurposed, the failure is not hypothetical. I no longer work for, or with,
the .biz (and .us) registry operator. Do operational practices have some
potential or actual consequences which may affect name use? You bet. It
means spending some of that $5-and-change/name-year on brand protection.
You've pointed to the complex sequence of events (sunrise-to-steady-state)
and operational practices of ICANN and non-ICANN actors as having some real
consequences. I agree. A registry that re-launches with a thousand-dollar
price point (100/year, refundable for insert-circumstances), is unlikely to
be a haven for spam, assuming they actually collect before provisioning is
converted to publication. That's the most extream case in the cash-as-filter
conduct spectrum that I know of.
Thanks for the note. I look forward to your reply.
Eric
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