[governance] FW: [IP] Re Extortion runs wild on .sucks gTLD

[Michael Gurstein]

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From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk at gsp.org <mailto:rsk at gsp.org> >
Date: Monday, March 16, 2015
Subject: [ NNSquad ] Extortion runs wild on .sucks gTLD
To: dave at farber.net <mailto:dave at farber.net> 
Cc: Lauren Weinstein <lauren at vortex.com <mailto:lauren at vortex.com> >


(for IP, if you wish)

On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 11:52:54AM -0400, Lauren Weinstein wrote:
> As far as the overwhelmingly vast majority of new gTLDs is concerned,
> I've seen nothing from them but spam and phishing attempts, and I block
> them from my networks with zero sense of shame and without any obvious
> detrimental effects here. Personally, I recommend that you do the same.

I strongly concur with Lauren's assessment and his recommended course
of action: the new gTLDs are already heavily infested with spammers,
phishers, domainers and other abusers.  (e.g., so far every domain I've
observed in .link, .club, and .science belongs to a spammer.)

However, I'd take an additional step: I'd use DNS RPZ (Reponse
Policy Zones) to effectively cause these TLDs to disappear from
the view of the Internet seen by anyone using the nameserver(s)
so configured.  This not only stops incoming spam (presuming that
the mail server is configured to refuse mail from non-resolving
domains) but it stops outbound SMTP, HTTP, etc.

It's as if they don't exist, which is a highly desirable outcome.

---rsk


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