[At-Large] R: R: registration fantasies

Roberto Gaetano roberto_gaetano at hotmail.com
Sun Jan 27 18:46:48 UTC 2013


Going to the details of the articles, to me that means that quality checking
is indeed possible.
I am also under the impression that the problem has since being solved, or
at least greatly reduced.
R.



> -----Messaggio originale-----
> Da: at-large-bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org [mailto:at-large-
> bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org] Per conto di Peter Thomassen
> Inviato: martedì 22 gennaio 2013 00:12
> A: at-large at atlarge-lists.icann.org
> Oggetto: Re: [At-Large] R: registration fantasies
> 
> .eu had serious problems with lots of domain names being registered for
> dubious purposes in the past.
> http://www.domainesinfo.fr/english/093/eurid-blocks-10-000-eu-
> names.php
> http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/news/2006/08/71555
> 
> So, sounds like the share of dubious domain names is quite high under .eu.
In
> 2007, some analysis was done on this, and it turned out that 16% of the
.eu
> domain names really were used to make content available (not only ads).
> This is pretty much 1:5.
> 
> Source (German):
> http://www.domain-recht.de/newsletter-archiv/newsletter-archiv-
> 2007/ausgabe-374-august-2007-newsletter-domain-recht-11147.html
> 
> Best,
> Peter
> 
> On 01/21/2013 05:25 PM, John R. Levine wrote:
> >> Are you sure that the ratio is 1:100 or even 1:1000?
> >
> > It's something like that.  Spammers and phishers register vast numbers
> > of domains, and as far as I can tell, nobody else does since domain
> > tasting went away.
> >
> > Regards,
> > John Levine, johnl at iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for
> > Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail.
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