[Chapter-delegates] Interesting comments via Robert Guerra

[Richard Hill]

Thanks for this. I found that it was well worth reading the CircleID post from Garth, referenced below.

Best,

Richard

 

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Another case of compliance.

Research was done by Garth Bruen.

Published the results of a months-long study of how various U.S.-based ICANN contracted parties handle reports of domains engaged in narcotics traffic. The specific narcotics here are opioids which are synthetic versions of morphine often mixed with other chemicals or time-release mechanisms. Abuse of narcotics is a global problem, but has been particularly sharp here in the U.S. in the last few year. Cybercriminals respond to news and have become aggressively predatory in offering a variety of illicit substances on different domains.

In simple terms KnujOn collected illegal opioid selling domains and reported them in detail to registries, registrars, and ISPs. The illegal nature of these domains is particular to U.S. law so only U.S.-based companies were measured here. I may release a report later focusing on different regions and laws.

The public report is here: http://knujon.com/onlineopioidsUSfeb2017.pdf

I have blogged about the report on CircleID: http://www.circleid.com/posts/20170215_narcotics_traffic_is_not_part_of_a_healthy_domain_system/

Aside from the seriousness of the issue as an abuse of the DNS, the problem from our perspective is the response from some providers in terms of policy. The good news is that MOST of the contracted parties and ISPs simply reviewed the domains against their policies and then quickly terminated them. The bad news is that some Ry/Rg incorrectly claimed the "ICANN contract prevented them from acting", that they did not have "the technical ability to suspend domains", or that they "could not find evidence of illegal activity". One domain became "hidden" after we reported it to the registrar but continues to sell Fentanyl, a very dangerous drug.

This is ultimately about failure of policy. These parties are making a choice not to investigate or suspend.

-Garth

 


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On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 9:26 PM, Javier Rua <javrua at gmail.com> wrote:

Interesting. Thx Glenn



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On Feb 15, 2017, at 8:55 PM, Glenn McKnight <mcknight.glenn at gmail.com> wrote:

A  recent post by Robert Guerra  has cross posted this post....

 

For those who may have missed it, ISOC's Public Interest Registry is planning to establish by the end of the quarter a new compulsory private arbitration system that would allow copyright owners to cancel .org domain names based on allegations of copyright infringement:

 <http://domainincite.com/21517-the-pirate-bay-likely-to-be-sunk-as-org-adopts-udrp-for-copyright> http://domainincite.com/21517-the-pirate-bay-likely-to-be-sunk-as-org-adopts-udrp-for-copyright

This is also being pushed as an international best practice standard for other domain registries to adopt:

 <https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/02/healthy-domains-initiative-censorship-through-shadow-regulation> https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/02/healthy-domains-initiative-censorship-through-shadow-regulation

This hardly seems like a measure that's in the "public interest".  What do ISOC members think about this proposal?

-- 
Jeremy Malcolm
Senior Global Policy Analyst
Electronic Frontier Foundation
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