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Verisign just released an overview of their proposed "Anti-Abuse Domain Use Policy" Under ICANN's Registry Services Evaluation Process. The program's chief aim is to provide a takedown mechanism of malicious websites distributing malware. In itself, not a bad thing, considering some registrars are unresponsive toward abuse or network stability issues.
The policy would also enable a take-down “to avoid any liability, civil or criminal”, which seems to be just begging for VeriSign to be named spuriously in commercial lawsuits between .com registrants.
The RSEP also suggests that VeriSign plans to extend its hand of friendship to law enforcement agencies from outside the US.
What does this mean in the real world ?
It means domains can be taken down without judicial process and in the absence of any overt network abuse. I refer anybody who thinks the possibility of abuse of this policy is remote to the actions of Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Chairman Joe Lieberman, last December regarding Wikileaks – an entity which has still never been charged with any offence in any jurisdiction and which continues to operate in a perfectly legal manner. (Lieberman called on "any company or organization that is hosting Wikileaks to immediately terminate its relationship with them."
Or how about this example ?
If a subdomain that hosts a company blog gets hacked and is serving malware, VeriSign could shut down the entire domain name, affecting not only the blog subdomain but all other subdomains.
Is there something you can do ? Sure you can ! This is an official proposal from Verisign to ICANN. Leave a comment at their forum
Source ccTLD.
The policy would also enable a take-down “to avoid any liability, civil or criminal”, which seems to be just begging for VeriSign to be named spuriously in commercial lawsuits between .com registrants.
The RSEP also suggests that VeriSign plans to extend its hand of friendship to law enforcement agencies from outside the US.
What does this mean in the real world ?
It means domains can be taken down without judicial process and in the absence of any overt network abuse. I refer anybody who thinks the possibility of abuse of this policy is remote to the actions of Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Chairman Joe Lieberman, last December regarding Wikileaks – an entity which has still never been charged with any offence in any jurisdiction and which continues to operate in a perfectly legal manner. (Lieberman called on "any company or organization that is hosting Wikileaks to immediately terminate its relationship with them."
Or how about this example ?
If a subdomain that hosts a company blog gets hacked and is serving malware, VeriSign could shut down the entire domain name, affecting not only the blog subdomain but all other subdomains.
Is there something you can do ? Sure you can ! This is an official proposal from Verisign to ICANN. Leave a comment at their forum
Source ccTLD.
