Re: [ga] FYI - DOT.BIZ RE: Wired mag article on spammers playing traceroute games with trojaned boxes (fwd)

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joe and all former DNSO GA members or other interested stakeholders/users,

  Thanks Joe for the Wired news URL [See below].  And
yes Suresh is definitely not alone in getting allot if not most
Spam from .BIZ domain names.  A number of our members
have also been tracking and logging the same situation.

 I can only guess that ICANN is not taking any significant
steps to address this rapidly growing problem with yet
again another of it's Registries...

Joe Baptista wrote:

> On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Jeff Williams wrote:
>
> >   Do you happen to have the link to the wired article?
>
> here it is
>
> Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 20:34:41 +0530
> From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: nanog@xxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Wired mag article on spammers playing traceroute games with
> trojaned boxes
>
> http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,60747,00.html
>
> --
> srs (postmaster|suresh)@outblaze.com // gpg : EDEDEFB9
> manager, outblaze.com security and antispam operations
>
> >
> > Joe Baptista wrote:
> >
> > > lots of spam problems in .biz - nanog call to clean up.
> > >
> > > regards
> > > joe
> > >
> > > Joe Baptista for Councillor City of Peterborough Town Ward 3
> > >                 Official Campaign Site @ www.joebaptista.com
> > >                      Personal Web Space @ www.baptista.god
> > >
> > > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > > Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 13:01:48 -0400
> > > From: Geo. <georger@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > To: nanog@xxxxxxxxx
> > > Subject: RE: Wired mag article on spammers playing traceroute games with
> > >     trojaned boxes
> > >
> > > >>There are two ways to go here -
> > >
> > > * Nullroute or bogus out in your resolvers the DNS servers for this
> > > domain --> two problems here.  One is that the spammer doesn't use
> > > vano-soft.biz in the smtp envelope, and second, he abuses open
> > > redirectors like yahoo's srd.yahoo.com <<
> > >
> > > There is another option, create an email filter and block any email that
> > > includes the text ".biz/" in any email.
> > >
> > > That will do two things, it will stop the spams from being received in the
> > > first place and it will cause one heck of a headache for the .biz domain so
> > > they clean up their act and deal with their problems.
> > >
> > > Geo.
> >
> > --
> > Jeffrey A. Williams
> > Spokesman for INEGroup LLA. - (Over 134k members/stakeholders strong!)
> > "Be precise in the use of words and expect precision from others" -
> >     Pierre Abelard
> > ===============================================================
> > CEO/DIR. Internet Network Eng. SR. Eng. Network data security
> > Information Network Eng. Group. INEG. INC.
> > E-Mail jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Contact Number: 214-244-4827 or 214-244-3801
> >
> >
> >

Regards,
--
Jeffrey A. Williams
Spokesman for INEGroup LLA. - (Over 134k members/stakeholders strong!)
"Be precise in the use of words and expect precision from others" -
    Pierre Abelard
===============================================================
CEO/DIR. Internet Network Eng. SR. Eng. Network data security
Information Network Eng. Group. INEG. INC.
E-Mail jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Contact Number: 214-244-4827 or 214-244-3801