Ronald, All, I honestly can't believe that I have to say this again, but please do not use language/phrasing like this on the list. I'm not telling you what opinion you have to have of ICANN or any other organisation, nor am I saying that we cannot criticise others, but there is a way to do that and, on a community list, this is not the way. Thanks, Brian Co-Chair, RIPE AA-WG Brian Nisbet (he/him) Service Operations Manager HEAnet CLG, Ireland's National Education and Research Network 1st Floor, 5 George's Dock, IFSC, Dublin D01 X8N7, Ireland +35316609040 brian.nisbet@heanet.ie www.heanet.ie Registered in Ireland, No. 275301. CRA No. 20036270 ________________________________ From: anti-abuse-wg <anti-abuse-wg-bounces@ripe.net> on behalf of Ronald F. Guilmette <rfg@tristatelogic.com> Sent: Tuesday 8 February 2022 10:01 To: anti-abuse-wg@ripe.net <anti-abuse-wg@ripe.net> Subject: Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Fwd: [dns-wg] EU: DNS abuse study CAUTION[External]: This email originated from outside of the organisation. Do not click on links or open the attachments unless you recognise the sender and know the content is safe. In message <e3e427c8-3006-9df0-f56c-b9215fe77e52@mxdomain.de>, =?UTF-8?Q?Markus_de_Br=c3=bcn?= <markus@mxdomain.de> wrote:
f) The top five most abused registrars account for 48% of all maliciously registered domain names (Appendix 1 - Technical Report, Section 11.2, pp. 43-44).
Hey! I have an idea! What if we created one global organization to accredit and monitor literall all domain name registrar companies, and what if we allowed that organization to actually *disipline* domain name registrars which have proven by their actions that they are purely profit-oriented anti-social assholes? Now I know what you are thinking. "Impossible!", right? But I can dream, can't I? Regards, rfg P.S. Namecheap, Inc., whose name comes up repeatedly in this study, has at various times claimed to have its headquarters in California and then, subsequently, in Arizona. as far as I have been been able to determnine it has never been properly registered in either state. It is, I believe, logical to infer from that fact that it has never filed a state-level tax return in either California or Arizona, quite possibly violating the law in either or both states. Not that ICANN would give a shit. Aa long as no officers of any accredited registrar have murdered anybody lately, or been convicted of robbing any banks lately, I think that ICANN is OK with pretty much anything else, as long as they keep on getting their checks regularly. I am reminded of that old saying... "Fish rots from the head down." https://opencorporates.com/companies?q=Namecheap&utf8=%E2%9C%93 -- To unsubscribe from this mailing list, get a password reminder, or change your subscription options, please visit: https://lists.ripe.net/mailman/listinfo/anti-abuse-wg