I just realised that I am guilty of not communicating properly, and I do apologise. simply having a domain name here.it.is or come.in or about.me or whatever, and hosting parts of it in the UK, parts of it in Belize, parts of it in Cuba and some of it in the USA - there is absolutely nothing wrong with that - it is actually quite normal - no abuse I do exactly the same thing. for example ox.co.za is in Germany (and in Canada and elsewhere) then, the entire Internet is full of 'ironic' content websites. Just because some website claims to supply live moon dust, or sell whatever does not make it a crime. And, just to also complete this idea: If some website or domain is selling children, endangered species, credit card numbers, etc etc etc - This is not abuse? - It is crime and/or criminal activity - and has to be reported to the relevant authorities - It is not abuse and has Zero relevance to an abuse list? And, even then, the domain name is not the place to start. One starts at the IP number - the actual physical location of the crime (and/or data) Then, is whatever whomever is doing legal? or illegal.? For example, many things that are illegal in the West are legal in other parts of the world. It is perfectly fine to buy a Crocodile in the Congo, but in the Congo it is very illegal to buy a Bonobo. So, these criminal activities are for the various geo areas in terms of where the servers and operators are - and are criminal - and not much abuse related, how is RIPE supposed to discuss illegal activities, there is nothing to discuss - it is crime and has to be prosecuted, if it is in fact crime and not just ironic content... my 1c (for clarity) Andre On Tue, 9 Aug 2016 13:24:39 +0200 andre@ox.co.za wrote:
Agreed.
I do not understand what Ronald F. Guilmette is complaining about or even what this thread is about...
I own some and operate many other .com domains, I also operate .me (like example https://wishes.me )
Speaking of which, I recently created this: https://about.me/andrecoetzee - kinda cool! no?
this does not mean that I am pretending to be in Montenegro, just that some countries are more open, free and forward thinking and that some domain tld's are suitable for custom type names, for example .is and .in and others.
So, as I said, I have absolutely no idea what the initial post is even about at all, maybe Ronald F. Guilmette can point out the ABUSE that will be super helpful and not seem like such a complete waste of time.
Andre
On Tue, 9 Aug 2016 13:11:21 +0200 Volker Greimann <vgreimann@key-systems.net> wrote:
Speaking on general terms, not on the specific website, anything you cite could also occur in a legit website. In a globalized world, users are free to deal with any service provider they trust and register domains in any TLD they chose. There is nothing fishy about that per se.
The domain name string you cite is quite a nice string, which probably was not available in many TLDs anymore. Further, the TLD sting. ".is" can be used as a hack as it is an English language word.
Just my 2 cents,
Volker
Am 09.08.2016 um 05:14 schrieb Ronald F. Guilmette:
https://www.verified.is/ (Gee! Big surprise! Russian language only.) -> .IS = Iceland -> 82.221.130.101
That site is obviously all written in Russian, but it is resident on a little /26 IP address block that's pretending to be owned by a Belizian company. (See below.) But of course, it's actually physically sitting in a data center somewhere in Iceland, and on an Icelandic AS.
I am seeing this kind of thing almost every day now... bullshit domains sitting on bullshit networks, almost always in RIPE IP space, but all claiming to be in either Belize or UAE.
I've given up any hope that posting any of this kind of information here will have any impact on anything, ever. A part of me wants to scream "Which part of this repeating pattern do you folks not understand?" but I know that doing so here is pointless. So I'm really only posting this here so that later on, nobdy can say to me "Gee Ron, why didn't you ever say anything to anybody about that?"
I did say something. In fact I said plenty... about both Belize and UAE. It's not my fault if everybody with power and influence within RIPE continued to ignore the now all-too-obvious patterns because the self- evident truths about what's been going on doesn't suit their own financial interests.
Regards, rfg
P.S. At least the .IS domain administrators are looking at possibly suspending the doamin name on the grounds that the registration info "isn't accurate". I commend them for that. That's one hell of a lot more than the network operator (AS50613, Advania) is willing to do. Advania didn't even have the courtesy to answer my email, even if only to tell me to go pound sand.
========================================================================= inetnum: 82.221.130.64 - 82.221.130.127 netname: ORANGEWEB descr: OrangeWebsite.com - Network org: ORG-IL351-RIPE country: IS admin-c: OTD3-RIPE tech-c: OTD3-RIPE status: ASSIGNED PA mnt-by: MNT-ADVANIA created: 2016-01-27T15:08:11Z last-modified: 2016-01-27T15:08:11Z source: RIPE
organisation: ORG-IL351-RIPE org-name: Icenetworks Ltd. org-type: OTHER address: 60 Market Square address: Belize City, Belize <== I hope they speak Russian down there! e-mail: sales@orangewebsite.com abuse-c: OTD3-RIPE mnt-ref: MNT-ADVANIA mnt-by: MNT-ADVANIA created: 2014-11-05T10:30:10Z last-modified: 2014-11-05T10:46:28Z source: RIPE
role: OrangeWebsite.com Technical Department address: OrangeWebsite.com address: Klapparstigur 7 address: 101 Reykjavik address: Iceland abuse-mailbox: abuse@orangewebsite.com e-mail: support@orangewebsite.com admin-c: AK12182-RIPE tech-c: AK12182-RIPE mnt-by: MNT-ADVANIA nic-hdl: OTD3-RIPE created: 2013-12-16T09:41:11Z last-modified: 2013-12-16T09:41:11Z source: RIPE
% Information related to '82.221.128.0/19AS50613'
route: 82.221.128.0/19 descr: Advania / Thor Data Center origin: AS50613 mnt-by: THOR-MNT mnt-lower: THOR-MNT created: 2013-07-30T12:15:23Z last-modified: 2013-07-30T12:15:23Z source: RIPE