Safe Netting

What would you say to the Judge who meets a convicted criminal behind the court house after the trial to release the criminal free, and give him a handgun? Well, that’s what’s happinging with the people in charge of your internet — ICANN

Recently we reported on internet threats perpetrated by threats perpetrated by ICANN the managing body for the Internet’s domain naming system. Knujon and many others continue to confront ICANN with violations of their own registrar policy to no avail.

Knujon reported last week that suspended pharmacy domains continue to reappear at same registrars and nameservers.

Knujon reports:

KnujOn has found at least 19 rogue pharmacy domains, sponsored through DIRECT INFORMATION PVT LTD D/B/A PUBLICDOMAINREGISTRY.COM (PDR), which were reported by the Registrar as Suspended, back in operation with the same content, at the same nameservers. The nameserver: canadamenrx.com, is a
lso sponsored by PDR and is itself an unlicensed pharmacy site.

This is an example of a practice we have seen all too frequently where Internet companies will remove sites temporarily for reported policy violations only to restore them shortly afterwards.

In some cases the domains move from one Registrar to another (occasionally two Registrars with the same parent company, however), but this is a situation where the domains went right back where they were before.

DIRECT INFO/PUBLICDOMAINREGISTRY was rated the 9th Worst Registrar in terms of sponsoring spam sites previously. Below for each domain is a copy of the suspension report sent by the Registrar to ICANN in May paired with the site content as of August 3, 2008.

Currently there is no channel for public complaint other than a tedious and contorted series of filing procedures that ICANN requires — which means they don’t want to hear about it. Our suggestion would be to contact your Congressman or Attorney General’s office.

See: www.knujon.com