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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."
If spam is a "whopper" of a problem, and burger king's "whopper" is a cheeseburger, then...
ICANN has cheezburger?
Funny aside: my captcha is "verified", something which these domains were not.
Well, I'd be all for a segregated internet if it could keep all the American spam comments advertising drugs, loans, insurance and porn off my blog. Remember the USA is still the biggest spam producer. It would be nice if you could only spam yourselves.
"If China and Russia won't stop their criminals..."
You're aware that the US is still, by a factor of almost 4, the number one spamming nation on Earth? But don't take my word for it:
http://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/countries.lasso
Now, you were saying? Sorry, it's hard to hear you when you're speaking from atop such a high horse.
I hate printers.