Folks, We have just published our follow-up report on the top ten abused Registrars. Much has changed since our first report in May 0f 2008. Who is not on the list is just as interesting as who is on the list. We have issued this report with the assumption that these numbers indicate problems at certain registrars and not necessarily malfeasance. However, 83% of the spammed domains since June or 2008 are held by just 10 Registrars. Full statistics and charts can be found here: http://www.knujon.com/registrars/ An article about the report has been published here: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2009/02/report_most_spam_sites_... KnujOn is a public service for Internet users and we are extending that service to the Registrars. We contacted each of the Registrars in advance with a list steps they need to take to fix some of these problems, including specifics about the customers who are wreaking the most havoc. Each Registrar (and this is true for any Registrar) was extended an offer of assistance in clearing out problems and removing abusive registrants. So far none have responded to our offer or recommendations. This list may or may not surprise some of you: 1. XIN NET (Second Time at #1) 2. eNom 3. Network Solutions 4. Register.com 5. PLANETONLINE 6. RegTime 7. OnlineNIC 8. SpotDomains (domainsite) 9. Wild West 10. HICHINA Web Solutions Before going into specifics of each case, compare this to the list from May, 2008: 1. Xin Net Bei Gong Da Software 2. Beijing Innovative Networks 3. Todaynic 4. Joker 5. eNom, Inc. 6. MONIKER 7. Dynamic Dolphin 8. The Nameit Co/AITDOMAINS.COM 9. PDR/Directi 10. Intercosmos/DIRECTNIC With the exception of Xin Net and eNom all the other cited Registrars dropped off the list. Why? They were either forced to take action or took action of their own accord. Joker and Beijing Innovative Networks (DNS.COM.CN) were issued breach notices by ICANN, the others were impacted by the public disclosure and modified their behavior. What does this tell us? For one when the system functions as designed we get results. Secondly we can see that a so-called impossible situation can be altered in fairly short period of time. I’m very positive about the overall situation. -Garth ------------------------------------- Collect, analyze, enforce, repeat... ICANN, Mexico City - March 1-6 http://mex.icann.org/ MIT Spam Conference, Cambridge Mass. - March 26-27 http://projects.csail.mit.edu/spamconf/ Dr. Robert Bruen at: MAAWG, San Francisco, CA - February 17-19 http://www.maawg.org/news/GeneralMeeting_Feb09/ RSA, San Francisco, CA - April 20-24 https://365.rsaconference.com/index.jspa