Posts Tagged ‘Cybercrime’
KnujOn.com has released a report and corresponding press release claiming that Demand Media's domain registrar eNom may be knowingly sponsoring fraudulent pharmaceutical networks. Here are a couple paragraphs from the release: Our findings are shocking and go a long way to explain the prevalence of cybercrime and spam. While the major focus of the report concerns policy failures, in most cases ...
Chinese Registrars Need Rap on Knuckles, Expert Says
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
Jeremy Kirk writes on Computerworld AU : A computer security expert is calling for action against two Chinese companies that he and other analysts allege are facilitating spam and cybercrime on the Internet. Both of the companies, eName and Xin Net Technology , are domain name registrars. They sell domain names and the corresponding registration services that allow a Web site to be found on the Internet, said Gary Warner, director of research in computer forensics at the Univers
ICANN terminates EstDomains, Directi takes over 280k domains (ZDNet)
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
Following ICANN's notice of termination sent to cybercrime-friendly domain registrar EstDomains in October, on the 24th of November the termination became a reality and EstDomains is no more. Despite the public concerns of who will take the 280,000 domains, and that includes the cybercrime facilitating ones, Directi's ResellerClub is new home for EstDomains customers. ICANN's Stacy Burnette, ...
Estdomains will lose it rights to sell .eu domains now ICANN has thrown them out ?
Thursday, October 30th, 2008
If the organisation responsable for the .eu domain lets an organisation that is linked to cybercrime sells .eu domains, that it should not be surprised that cybercrime is interested in the .eu domain. The .eu domain is as interesting as the .us domain...... which shows why the general and local domainextensions are so predominant. But the fact that it will lose its right to register domains, will have a huge impact because even if it is small in total percentage, it are still a few hundred tho
