We might need to rise awareness in the community, that idea of filtering whole TLDs is quite contrary to the idea of open and united internet.

Sounds weird, but according to the report all customers should buy .mil domains (the safest ones) , which is impossible.
(Usually everybody looks into worst and best and pass the rest).

P.s: most probably their customers are not civilians, so such logic might make some sense for them

I tried to reach site of BlueCoat from one of my VPN servers

And, to my surprise

I had "ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED" in Chrome (no explanation at all, just refused connection)

 

The reason - one of GEO Locators think that 89.104.90.178 is somewhere in Iran, when in reality it is in Moscow, Russia ...

(but this issue is outside of the scope of UA group)

Sincerely Yours,

Maxim Alzoba
Special projects manager,
International Relations Department,
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On Sep 16, 2015, at 23:31 , Jennifer Gore Standiford <JStandiford@web.com> wrote:

Ram and UA Members,
 
Have we requested or received any of the underlying data that supports the stats outlined in the BlueCoat report? I wonder why the .zip extension was referenced as a ‘shady’  considering it hasn’t launched yet.  
 
Thanks,
Jennifer
 
Jennifer Gore Standiford
Policy Director
Web.com
12808 Gran Bay Parkway, West  |  Jacksonville, FL 32258
Office: 904. 680-6919| Cell: 904. 401-4347

 
 
 
 
From: ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org [mailto:ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org] On Behalf Of Ram Mohan
Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2015 1:43 PM
To: UA-discuss@icann.org
Subject: [UA-discuss] Blue Coat's Web's Shadiest Neighborhoods and implications on TLD acceptance
 
Folks,
BlueCoat, a security vendor used by most of the Fortune 500, released a report on the Web’s shadiest TLDs on Sep 1, 2015. They recommend to their 15,000+ customers to block all listed TLDs (report attached). Most of these are new gTLDs.
 
There are implications for universal acceptance. This will result in some discussion at the upcoming UA Coordination Summit in Horsham tomorrow and Friday. The summit will have a conference bridge for anyone interesting in participating. Don Hollander will provide details.
 
-Ram
Chair, UASG
 
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The Web’s Top 10 "TLDs with Shady Sites*"

Rank   Top-Level Domain Name     Percentage of Shady Sites

 #1        .zip                                          100.00%

#2        .review                                    100.00%         

#3        .country                                  99.97%

#4        .kim                                         99.74%           

#5        .cricket                                   99.57%           

#6        .science                                  99.35%           

#7        .work                                      98.20%

#8        .party                                      98.07%           

#9        .gq (Equatorial Guinea)        97.68%

#10      .link                                         96.98%