[CPWG] DNS Abuse Education

[Jonathan Zuck]

Folks,
One of the things we mentioned in the DNS Abuse 101 session was putting together some resources to help “end users” identify and frustrate DNS Abuase. Evin has agreed to host a “micro-site” on DNS Abuse on the At-Large site. We probably want to get a domain name for promotional purposes, however. Thoughts? Glen has offered to spend some time on the content for that site.

I’ve started the process of pulling the educational materials out of the DNS 101 presentation and a number of questions came up.


  1.  The term “DNS Abuse” is pretty obscure!
Many of the different types of abuse, phishing, ransomeware, etc. have made it into the public lexicon but the term DNS Abuse has not. Instead you more often see references to Cybercrime or Cyber Attacks, etc. The term DNS Abuse isn’t even an article in Wikipedia…so I started one!  (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft%3ADNS_Abuse) Is it worth it to us to promote the term “DNS Abuse” because we want people thinking about this stuff in the ICANN context or should we meet the users where they are and do something like “Tips and Tricks for fending off Cyber Attacks?”
  2.  Is this even a content creation exercise?
Might very well be the case that the best use of our resources is to get existing materials into more hands. As Laureen mentioned on the call, the FTC, as an example, as created a number of resources that we could share…or even rebrand. https://youtu.be/XU8PHihT_P4. We should discuss what we have to add from a content perspective rather than a communications channel perspective. It’s true that a lot of materials on the web have a commercial purpose so it might be worth creating new materials but we should definitely. Determine where we have value to add.

Jonathan Zuck |  Executive Director  |  Innovators Network
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