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ICANN Shutting Down EstDomains Nov. 24
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs —
... for serving spam and malware sites, Internet registrar EstDomains was notified that it will be de-accredited on Nov. 24, a decision that will put the controversial domain registrar out of business. EstDomains is widely regarded as a haven for spammers and cybercriminals. In the last five days, 38.89% (14 of 36) active EstDomains-registered domains appearing in e-mail are ...
Malware, mayhem, and the McColo takedown
Betanews —
... "Spam costs businesses millions if not billions each year; the economic cost of spam is about equal to that of illegal drugs. But there's little political impetus" to fix the junk-mail problem, he said. The Internet's allegedly governing bodies haven't been any better at framing the problem and figuring out how to address it. ICANN has been, Sergeant says ruefully, "glacially slow" at clamping down on bad registrars, and though some security folk are rejoicing that ICANN will finally deliver on its death sentence for notorious registry EstDomains.com, it's mainly of interest ...
ICANN Puts EstDomains Registrar Back on Chopping Block
eWeek - RSS Feeds —
After initially staying the execution of embattled registrar EstDomains, ICANN has decided to shut it down Nov. 24. EstDomains has long been linked to cyber-criminals by security researchers. ICANN has placed the EstDomains registrar back on death row. According to ICANN , the embattled registrar will have its accreditation terminated effective Nov. 24. ...
