On 12/17/2009 04:32 PM, Derek Smythe wrote:
And in a similar vein, a well known escrow scam abusing a private registration this time. This scam would be an ideal case study of how one criminal group abuses the DNS system. They are still going strong as we can see despite victims have done the required.
I have been in touch with the real owners being spoofed who are aware of the situation and have all but given up.
Have they contacted law enforcement? Have the filed a civil complaint with "john doe" defendants so that they can open up a court-supervised discovery and subpoena process? Absent a concrete demonstration that these people have utilized the above channels I doubt that these people can not obtain relief through existing channels. And thus I am unconvinced that there is merit in the proposition that there exists a vacuum that must be filled by an ICANN as an internet policeman that also doubles as judge-jury-executioner. Hasn't the history of everything since Moses and the Golden Calf through the 20th century hot and cold war madness, not to mention the "W" presidency, adequately demonstrated the dangers of paranoia driven creation of police/security apparatus? --karl--