[ga] Washington Post to expose ICANN registrar ESTDomains

[Danny Younger <dannyyounger@xxxxxxxxx>]

A Washington Post article by Brian Krebs entitled "Report Slams U.S. Host as 
Major Source of Badware" promises a follow-up article on ICANN accredited 
registrar ESTdomains:

"In a follow-up post, Security Fix will examine the activities of Atrivo's 
largest customer: domain name registrar ESTDomains".

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/08/report_slams_us_host_as_major.html

Estdomains recently came to our attention when LegitScript and KnujOn sent a 
letter to EstDomains requesting they terminate an unlicensed steroid site being 
sponsored at EstDomains. We were told that EstDomains never responded and the 
site is sill active.

Other online sources point to known Storm Botnet related FastFlux Domains 
registered by way of ESTDomains -- see 
http://www.disog.org/text/storm-fastflux.txt

Also, Estdomains recently experienced over three weeks of downtime for their 
domain privacy protection service, the service failure exposing all domain 
registration information to the public during that episode -- see 
http://www.johnraul.com/estdomains-domain-privacy-down-for-three-weeks-now/

It will be interesting to see which (if any) provisions of the proposed 
Registrar Accreditation Agreement will deal with the revelations that emerge in 
the Washington Post's next article.