Yes, it is an issue that concerns the domain name User. ALAC could initiate the necessary steps on what needs to be done by ICANN.

You mentioned "a "Registry Lock" which many Registries were unwilling to implement." As a domain registrant, I am familiar with a Domain Lock, by whatever name it is called, that the Registrant chooses to lock or unlock, but most registrants don't frequently login into the Domain Control panel, or even once. This lock needs to be set by default to "lock", I am not sure if the domain name is locked when registered, by all Registrars across the DNS space.

If the "Registry lock" or the "Registrar Lock" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registrar-Lock is different from the lock that is available to the Registrant, then ALAC could examine this with the required technical advice to examine if it may recommend that all Registries and Registrars could implement and lock it by default, even if this leads to a slight delay in the domain transfer process.

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On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 3:59 PM Marita Moll <mmoll@ca.inter.net> wrote:

There's no denying the potential end user impact.

Marita

On 4/20/2019 4:24 AM, Holly Raiche wrote:
Hi Olivier

Why isn’t this something that ALAC should take up?

Holly

On Apr 20, 2019, at 3:30 AM, Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond <ocl@gih.com> wrote:

Dear colleagues,

I have just read an article on Wired that speaks of mass scale cyber attacks on the DNS:
https://www.wired.com/story/sea-turtle-dns-hijacking/

This looks very serious indeed. Furthermore, it appears to be happening on domains that are not DNSSEC enabled/signed. And of course, this is a known vulnerability. But one thing that has somehow shocked me was that one of the way to avoid this was using a "Registry Lock" which many Registries were unwilling to implement.

Is it time to (a) ask SSAC what this is all about and (b) get the ICANN Board to mandate an essential security implementation before the whole DNS falls apart for lack of trust? Or is this article way too alarmist? My big concern at the moment is that if I was a Government representative, I'd ask "who runs this DNS?" and upon being told it's ICANN, I'd think that ICANN is incompetent in making the DNS safe from attack. As a result -> DNS is a critical resource -> get it run by countries rather than this incompetent organisation. (a lose-lose for all of us)

Kindest regards,

Olivier

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