[registrars] FW: APWG Request to discuss Phishing, Botnets and Internet fraud with the Registrar Constituency

["Bhavin Turakhia" <bhavin.t@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Below find details on a presentation Rod will be making to the Registrars
Constituency on Thursday at 5:00 pm -


The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) cordially invites attendees of  
the Vancouver ICANN meeting, particularly the Registrar Constituency  
to a panel discussion on the current headline issues of Phishing,  
Phraud and Botnets.  We will be presenting valuable information on  
the scale of these problems and their effects on the domain  
registration system and registrars.  Additionally, we'll cover the  
latest techniques used by these criminals to defraud consumers and  
domain registrars, as well as best practices and new ideas for  
combatting them.  The panel will include members of the APWG who are  
on the front-lines of the anti-phishing fight, along with peers from  
the registrar community who have successfully implemented programs to  
prevent and quickly eliminate fraudulent registrations abusing their  
services.  We hope to use this opportunity to give you valuable tips  
that you can implement right away to be able to eliminate abuse on  
your services.  We also wish to start discussions on procedures and  
policies that the entire registration community can work on to make  
it harder for criminals to so thoroughly abuse the Internet via the  
domain name system.  This is designed to be an open discussion with  
plenty of input from the assembled audience to get good ideas on the  
table.  The APWG wishes to include the domain registration community  
on the team dedicated to making the Internet a safer place for all to  
use, keeping the momentum moving forward for its continued health and  
growth.