Declan and all,

  Yet another fine example of how and where ICANN is and has
been
failing in policing it's contracted registrars.  "Good
corp. citizenship" my

a$!

Declan McCullagh wrote:

> Usually if someone has a problem with a page on a Web
site, the Web site
> owner or hosting provider is contacted. YouTube gets
nastygrams over
> Saturday Night Live copyright violations. Barney's
lawyers send
> nastygrams to Baltimore sysadmins who post photos of
plush toys in
> unflattering poses.
>
> And so on. This is the normal order of the universe,
and it could be a
> whole lot worse. (The DMCA's notice-and-take-down
section could be
> tilted heavily in favor of content owners, for
instance.)
>
> This week we caught a glimpse into what a whole lot
worse might look
> like. MySpace was upset because a list of some 45,000+
user names and
> passwords were floating around online (I'm guessing
because of shoddy
> security practices at MySpace, but I don't know for
sure). They were
> posted to a mailing list that's archived at
seclists.org, which is a
> kind of list repository. Politech is featured there,
for instance:
> http
://seclists.org/politech/2007/Jan/index.html
>
> Instead of contacting Seclists.org owner Fyodor
Vaskovich, MySpace went
> directly to his *domain name registrar*, which is
GoDaddy. GoDaddy
> yanked his site by, as far as I can tell, pushing an
immediate update to
> the .org registry to make his domain name invisible. It
appears as
> though GoDaddy gave Fyodor just 52 seconds of notice:
> http:
//seclists.org/nmap-hackers/2007/0000.html
>
> GoDaddy's general counsel Christine Jones defended the
deletion when I
> talked to her today, saying it's good corporate
citizenship. See:
>
> http://n
ews.com.com/2100-1025_3-6153607.html
>  >When asked if GoDaddy would remove the
registration for a news site
> like CNET News.com, if a reader posted illegal
information in a
> discussion forum and editors could not be immediately
reached over a
> holiday, Jones replied: "I don't know...It's a
case-by-case basis."
>
> She was even more blunt in an interview with Kevin
Poulsen at Wired
> News, saying 52 seconds of notice in a voicemail was
"pretty generous":
> http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/01/godaddy_de
fends.html
> "I think the fact that we gave him notice at all
was pretty generous,"
> she said.
>
> Fyodor has given me permission to post some of the
correspondence here
> (note how long it took him to get an answer about why
his domain was
> zapped):
> http://politechbot.com/docs/fyodor.godad
dy.myspace.seclists-1.012507.txt
> http://politechbot.com/docs/fyodor.godad
dy.myspace.seclists-2.012507.txt
>
> -Declan
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