ICANN Asked To Shut Down "Worst" Chinese Registrar

Ian Lamont writes "Anti-spam service Knujon has released reports highlighting how certain registrars in the US and abroad have consistently failed to live up to certain WHOIS-related obligations under ICANN's Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) — specifically, the requirement that people or company registering domains provide valid contact information. Now the firm is requesting that ICANN shut down the worst alleged offender, Xinnet Bei Gong Da Software. According to Knujon, none of the WHOIS records in a sample of 11,000 alleged spam sites registered through Xinnet and reported by Knujon to ICANN's Whois Data Problem Report System were corrected in a six-month period ending in May 2008 — and the Chinese registrar continues to register about 100 spam sites per day. In many cases, says the Knujon document (PDF), Xinnet does not have 'any Whois record data for review while the sites are still active' and the spam sites further promote 'seal abuse' by posting bogus BBB, Verisign, and other trusted industry seals. ICANN says it is investigating. ICANN has just posted a draft revised RAA that is open for public comment until August 4. However, the wording of Section 3.7.8, governing registrars' obligations to check and correct domain owners' contact information, hasn't changed."

Comments

I don't trust the Chinese

[Anonymous Coward]

Their eyes are a little bit too slanted for my taste.

ICANN is about as useful as the UN

[Anonymous Coward]

Which is to say... not at all.

Too late to comment now

[shanen]

Too bad /. is so boring these days... I'd have had a couple of juicy comments if anyone was still reading it, but these days I rarely stop by. Case in point: I searched this supposedly mature discussion for funny. Not so much.

Anyway, anything that annoys spammers is a-okay by me. There's a Shanghai outfit that hosts most of the twisty spam I see these days.