Safe Netting

Two days ago ICANN issued breach notices to Joker and Beijing Innovative Linkage Technology Ltd (DNS.com.cn) which should lead to their de-accreditation by October 14th. Beijing Innovative and Joker were numbers 2 and 4 on KnujOn’s 10 Worst List, respectively. THIS is big news for the spam-fighting community!

Submitting spam finally paying off

KnujOn processed submissions from subscribers and filed thousands of complaints and tracked them continuously to ensure contracts were observed and the public trust was not broken. In May of this year ICANN responded to KnujOn’s report by issuing enforcement notices against the rogue Registrars.

These are the companies who sponsor the websites advertised in the spam emails you received. They benefited from the traffic redirection and income generated by illicit websites. By processing consistent policy enforcement through legitimate, legal methods, KnujOn (with members!) has played a huge role in making these rogue companies choose between compliance or oblivion.

If you do not yet have a KnujON account you need to get one and start sending them your spam. (There’s no cost.) I send them 500 to 800 a day.

Every KnujOn participant and supporter can give themselves a big round of applause — they made this happen! BRAVO to KnujOn, and the spam-fighting community!

Details: http://www.knujon.com/news.html#10032008

This is not the end, we are just getting started. Here comes a better Internet.

I am working on a more full version of this article for this weekend’s InfoManager, stay tuned.

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