Nominet’s Issue Group on dealing with domain names used in connection with criminal activity has published its draft recommendations, which seem reassuringly close to the JANET submission to the original request for comments.
Expedited suspension of a domain is regarded as a last resort, to be used only where alternative approaches via the registrar or registrant [...]
Questions about my last posting on Nominet’s DNS domain suspension discussions, have got me thinking a bit more about my idea of “domains registered for a criminal purpose”. My suggestion is that these should be the only domains that a top-level registry can remove on its own, rather than asking for the decision to be [...]
Nominet have published an issues paper asking whether there are circumstances in which it might be appropriate to rapidly suspend a DNS domain involved in criminal activity, and the processes that would be needed to ensure such action did not create too great a risk of unfairness. I’m writing this in an attempt to sort [...]
An interesting talk at the GovCERT.nl Symposium by Michel van Eeten of Delft University. For some time, and in many countries, there have been suggestions that ISPs should be encouraged, perhaps by legislation, to do more to protect other internet users from their customers. Discussion has tended to focus on the possibility of using network [...]