[At-Large] Definition of registration abuse

[Michele Neylon :: Blacknight]

On 29 Apr 2009, at 11:36, Derek Smythe wrote:
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> And maybe real banks do use shared hosting along with 560 other
> websites and the regulators allow it.

Do financial regulators take into account hosting in their checks and  
balances? I somehow doubt it

We host a number of banks and financial institutions on shared hosting  
for the simple reason that they are not transacting online
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> It does not take a brain surgeon to recognize a scam, just some
> experience in the understanding of the scam.

Well maybe if the people reporting the scams were to send abuse  
reports in English instead of techno-babble it might help

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> May I challenge you and give you five domains to process by your
> methods? You decide if they are legitimate, how to process them etc?
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> Talk is cheap, but the victims to these are real.

And I think you are conveniently missing the point entirely

If takedown notices etc., are not done properly innocent bystanders  
can be impacted. If company X's CMS is on a machine with 500 websites  
and
the cms is cracked / attacked / defaced which allows a phisher to put  
up a paypal / Bank of whatever scam site, how would you like to see it  
handled?

I suspect you'd want the site offline as quickly as possible...

Reality check - the hosting provider can't just pull the plug

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