US Web Firm Described As "Phantom Registrar" Haven

snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Martin Heller directs attention to ongoing investigations of more than 40 phantom registrars linked to The Directi Group, including PDR, one of the 10 worst offenders on the Net. According to KnujOn, an additional 19,000 domains advertised through spam have been hiding their ownership behind PrivacyProtect.org, which The Washington Post has outed as Directi-owned. Directi claims it suspends illicit domains, but KnujOn provides documentation suggesting that Directi reports the registrars suspended and then reinstates them at another IP address. 'There has been some outcry about all this from the ICANN At-Large Committee, but as of this writing there has been no response from ICANN's Tim Cole,' Heller writers. 'Perhaps that has something to do with the fact that LogicBoxes, a Directi-owned registrar, has sponsored ICANN meetings in L.A. and Delhi.' Directi has since issued an official response to the allegations."

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Only Hitler is anti-spam

[burnitdown]

They are exercising their freedom.

It may be modern art, or postmodern theory, or avantgarde poetry -- but you see it as spam.

The problem is that your interpretation is that... just an interpretation! There is no objective reality, even known relativistically, for it to correspond to.

Reality is anything you want it to be.

Spam might be the most genius works of our culture, and you would ban it.

Only Hitler is anti-spam. Stand for freedom: stand up for spam!