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Re: Can anyone shed some light as to what is happening with

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Thu Apr 2 03:18:14 2009

In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0904012336450.16907@mail.pirk.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 00:16:09 -0700
From: Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster@gmail.com>
To: Steve Pirk <orion@pirk.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

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On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:40 PM, Steve Pirk <orion@pirk.com> wrote:

>
> Wasn't Conficker also configured to try and register a ton of randomly
> generated domains? Two registrars go dark today?
>

Yes, but there is a counter effort that is being quite effective:

http://confickerworkinggroup.org/wiki/

If nothing else, it has brought together an unprecedented cross-industry,
multi-stakeholder effort in addressing these issues.

- - ferg

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