[governance] beijing ticket scam - is this governed at all?

[Ian Peter]

Thanks John. The site is now down, but I am interested in the process, as
this was a known scam since last March and was linked to via Forbes, MSNBC,
among others until they found out (somehow). And was live until a few hours
ago. That's a pretty healthy long life for such a site.

So am I to understand that the response in this case is purely an industry
self regulation one (via MAAWG and/or APWG). I have no problem with industry
self-regulation per se, but is there no legal loop, no ICANN loop, or do
police and/or Interpol complain to MAAWG or APWG (either?). Or is that
optional?


I see your point that takedowns can't be automatic without some validation.
But as you say, this would be an excellent area for some governance
guidelines!



Ian Peter
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Levine [mailto:icggov at johnlevine.com]
> Sent: 04 August 2008 23:42
> To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
> Cc: ian.peter at ianpeter.com
> Subject: Re: [governance] beijing ticket scam - is this governed at all?
> 
> >Very interested in analysis of why this is so when it is a known
> >major fraud site that has victims in many countries. Is there any
> >mechanism to stop major international scams?
> 
> Sort of, keeping in mind that this particular example is a minor scam,
> not a major one.
> 
> There are probably several dozen scam sites like that set up every
> day.  There are two interrelated problems -- one is that it's common
> for the registrar to be in one country, the web site in a second, and
> the mail servers sending promotional spam to be in yet a third through
> 50th.  The other is that there's a great deal of finger pointing.  Is
> the responsible party the registrar, eNom in this case?  The hosting
> company where the web site is located, Servepath?  The office-in-a-box
> in Arizona that's listed as their address?  All of the above?  MAAWG
> and the APWG have been working on setting up semi-formal contact
> systems to get registrars and hosters to take down bogus sites, but
> they can't just do a takedown on every random complaint, or else they
> get grief like Godaddy for turning off legitimate sites who have
> annoyed someone.
> 
> This would be an excellent area for some governance guidelines.  Too
> bad we're too busy deciding what font the ballots should be printed
> in.
> 
> R's,
> John
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