[gnso-rds-pdp-wg] Dangers of public whois

[Denny Watson]

Volker Greimann wrote:
> That old horse again?
>>
>> Here are some hard facts about the volume of abuse going on:
>> https://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/tlds/
>> Right now, 93.3 percent of all domains registered under the .science
>> TLD are malicious!
> Those statistics are only their perceived truth just like the audience
> at Trumps inauguration was the largest ever!
> 

Can you please make less emotionally charged statements?

> Their statistics are deeply flawed as they only look at a small part of
> domain names and disregard major pieces of the puzzle:
> According to nTLD stats, .science has 232,611 domains, yet the Spamhaus
> reports bases their badness rating on an arbitrary number of domains
> "seen". They even state that if a domain is not in the focus of their
> anti-abuse systems, it will not be counted as seen. By ignoring the
> majority of domains in a TLD one can dream up any percentage one likes,
> apparently.
> 

I'll give you an example;

Let's say that I am a widget manufacture, and I have a new widget that
I'm selling -- But this widget has a flaw where that at may burst into
flames and explode.

There have only been 100 sold and of those 78 have exploded... But I
have 1,000,000 more of these things in storage and not currently in use
by anyone.  What percentage of exploding widgets would you recommend
reporting?

Spamhaus doesn't really care about domains parked and attempting to be
sold by some domainer, nor do we care about domains registered
defensively in order to protect one's brand.  Honestly, there is a
number of good reasons that domains exist, but are not actively used.




-- 
Denny Watson
Sr. Investigator
The Spamhaus Project