[UA-discuss] UA and phishiness

[Aman Masjide]

+1 Paul.

I can understand the need to protect one's clients from incoming spam by
blocking an entire TLD. I do get that.

However, i would like to point out that NO external report can conclude the
exact percentage of abuse activity originating from within a TLD namespace.

Rather than blocking, I would encourage engagement with TLD operators to
fix the problem. I beleive no operator applied for an nTLD to promote
spam/abuse.

Final thought, despite having a great registration to abuse ratio, .com is
still on top of the most abused TLD list - http://www.surbl.org/tld. It has
always been there.




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On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 12:16 AM, Asmus Freytag <asmusf at ix.netcom.com> wrote:

> 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> 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> On Behalf Of Vittorio
> Bertola
> Sent: Friday, April 27, 2018 01:21
> To: Andrew Sullivan <ajs at anvilwalrusden.com>; Roberto Gaetano <
> roberto_gaetano at hotmail.com>
> Cc: Universal Acceptance <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>
> 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,
> --
>
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>
>
>


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