[UA-discuss] UA and phishiness

Asmus Freytag asmusf at ix.netcom.com
Mon Apr 30 18:46:48 UTC 2018


On 4/30/2018 10:28 AM, Paul Stahura wrote:
> folks should not block entire TLDs, only subdomains

Well, that assumes a public TLD, otherwise the distinction is meaningless.

But there are TLDs with badness quotients of well over 50%. I'm all in 
favor of blacklisting the whole TLD as an "incentive" to come clean.

https://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/tlds/

A./
> which is what happens in all legacy TLDs.  I doubt any admin is 
> blocking ALL of .com, .biz, .uk etc
> my suggestion:
> /
> make sure you accept any TLD by default, but feel free to blacklist 
> any domain name that you consider harmful/
>
>> On Apr 30, 2018, at 9:54 AM, Mark Svancarek via UA-discuss 
>> <ua-discuss at icann.org <mailto:ua-discuss at icann.org>> wrote:
>>
>> This seems reasonable, are there any objections?
>> /we could advocate is: make sure you accept any TLD (and any domain 
>> name) by default, but feel free to blacklist those that you consider 
>> harmful/
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: UA-discuss <ua-discuss-bounces at icann.org 
>> <mailto:ua-discuss-bounces at icann.org>> On Behalf Of Vittorio Bertola
>> Sent: Friday, April 27, 2018 01:21
>> To: Andrew Sullivan <ajs at anvilwalrusden.com 
>> <mailto:ajs at anvilwalrusden.com>>; Roberto Gaetano 
>> <roberto_gaetano at hotmail.com <mailto:roberto_gaetano at hotmail.com>>
>> Cc: Universal Acceptance <ua-discuss at icann.org 
>> <mailto:ua-discuss at icann.org>>
>> Subject: Re: [UA-discuss] UA and phishiness
>> > Il 26 aprile 2018 alle 22.27 Andrew Sullivan 
>> <ajs at anvilwalrusden.com <mailto:ajs at anvilwalrusden.com>> ha scritto:
>> >
>> >
>> > I guess I was wondering whether the SG wants to say that b is fine but
>> > c is a bad idea. It sounds like the SG _does_ think that, but I can't
>> > find it on the site yet :-)
>> I think that system administrators should be aware that many more 
>> TLDs than the best known ones exist, including TLDs in non-ASCII 
>> characters, and even more will be introduced, and should support and 
>> accept all of them except if they think they have reasons to 
>> blacklist specific TLDs due to non-technical issues. So, what we 
>> could advocate is: make sure you accept any TLD (and any domain name) 
>> by default, but feel free to blacklist those that you consider harmful.
>> This would IMHO be an acceptable stance that does not enter into 
>> thorny content-related issues (because it does not tell anyone what 
>> to blacklist and when) but still promotes universal acceptance.
>> Regards,
>> --
>> Vittorio Bertola | Head of Policy & Innovation, 
>> Open-Xchangevittorio.bertola at open-xchange.com 
>> <mailto:vittorio.bertola at open-xchange.com>Office @ Via Treviso 12, 
>> 10144 Torino, Italy
>

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