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ICANN's process for taking down domains works, if sometimes slowly. It's not always great for preventing the next phishing domain from popping up three minutes
by Kalium 7y ago
ICANN's process for taking down domains works, if sometimes slowly. It's not always great for preventing the next phishing domain from popping up three minutes later from the same attackers.
I can see both sides of this one. Namecheap is doing the right thing by protecting customer privacy, and Facebook reasonably wants to stop what is probably a well-organized and persistent phishing campaign aimed at their own customers.
- edoceo 7y agoFacebook could pay NameCheap a few bucks to attach an observer pattern to some registration watch filter and get real-time notification from some narrow scope of name patterns. In the olden days one would make a 20 line Perl script w/a nasty regex that's forked off for every registration -- and bill on the value not time to code. Is a more modern pattern to egregious? FB just send NC a filter table. Other name sensitive watchers could be added too.
- supermatt 7y agoYou can apply directly to the registry to get zone file access. There are also services which already do this and provide APIs, etc. No need to set up special relationships with registrars.