[145266] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET moved to Beijing?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Mon Oct 3 01:59:54 2011
In-Reply-To: <m2lit2r5gx.wl%randy@psg.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 11:29:43 +0530
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
120K domains - basically cnnic seems to have finally got tired of russian
botmaster types registering thousands of domains at a time, and put in a
rule that says you need business registration in China / ID in china to
register a .cn
Beyond that, that's one ccTLD - however large. There are multiple gTLDs
that have already done a great job of cleanup (biz, info for example) and so
far I haven't heard of .us having an infestation of botmasters / spammers.
And of course there are all the registrars out there that need to be reached
out to / handled etc etc - but that's another kettle of fish.
We're discussing two different things here - apples and oranges, though it
does look like they're all part of the same fruit salad.
1. Action by different registrars / registries [in .cn's case, a government
controlled registry, to be sure]
2. State policy to route internet access and DNS through an inspecting +
rewriting firewall that blocks or replaces politically unacceptable content
--srs
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:
> china nukes 120,000 domains for going against the policy of the state.
>
> oops! that wasn't china, was it?
>
> perhaps, we should postpone telling others what to do until our side of
> the street is clean?
>
> randy
>
>
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Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists@gmail.com)
