[ALAC] [At-Large] German school students victims of dutch drug trafficker TLD scam

Evan Leibovitch evan at telly.org
Mon Sep 21 10:18:40 CDT 2009


Joe Baptista wrote:
> German school students victims of dutch drug trafficker TLD scam
> http://bit.ly/LfCq7
>
> I wonder - could ICANN and IANA have done more to prevent this?
>   
Before I can even hope to answer this, I need to know more

> Administration at the school, one of Germany’s top ten high schools,
> confirmed today they are an INAIC approved reseller of Top-Level Domains
> (TLDs). The press release
> <http://inaic.com/index.php?p=news-01-06-2009>

What the heck is a "reseller of TLDs"?

What is INAIC?

And what is this list of "TLD registrars"?
http://inaic.com/index.php?p=tld-registrars

>From a cursory looks of things, it appears that the school was the
perpetrator of a scam as much as it was the victim of one...

- Evan





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