[registrars] Anti-phising working group (APWG) presentation on Thursday 1 Dec, at 5pm

[Bruce Tonkin]

The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) cordially invites attendees of
the Vancouver ICANN meeting to a panel discussion on the current
headline issues of Phishing, Phraud and Botnets.  The session will take
place Thursday, December 1st at 5 PM at Stanley Park Ballroom 1 and 2.
We will be presenting valuable information on the scale of these
problems and their effects on the domain registration system and
registrars.  Additionally, we'll cover the latest techniques used by
these criminals to defraud consumers and domain registrars, as well as
best practices and new ideas for combatting them.  The panel will
include members of the APWG who are on the front-lines of the
anti-phishing fight, along with peers from the registrar community who
have successfully implemented programs to prevent and quickly eliminate
fraudulent registrations abusing their services.  We hope to use this
opportunity to give you valuable tips that you can implement right away
to be able to eliminate abuse on your services.
We also wish to start discussions on procedures and policies that the
entire registration community can work on to make it harder for
criminals to so thoroughly abuse the Internet via the domain name
system.  This is designed to be an open discussion with plenty of input
from the assembled audience to get good ideas on the table.
The APWG wishes to include the domain registration community on the team
dedicated to making the Internet a safer place for all to use, keeping
the momentum moving forward for its continued health and growth.

If anyone has any input or questions ahead of the session, I've included
my contact information so they can reach me.  I will be in Vancouver
Tuesday evening (snow permitting).

Rod Rasmussen
Co-Chair APWG Phishing Data Repository Working Group Director of
Operations, Internet Identity
1 (888) 239-6932 ext. 84
1 (253) 590-4088
rod.rasmussen at internetidentity.com

Thank you very much and I look forward to seeing you in Vancouver!

Regards,

Rod