Re: Amazon phishing scam on Yahoo servers

[Vincent Archer <archer () frmug org>]

On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 05:32:13PM +1030, Geoff Vass wrote:
> Surely someone, somewhere, has to take some responsibility for allowing
> domains to be created which are clearly and obviously bogus. Who could
> possibly have a reason to register paypal-unlocking.net?

Allowing?

Registration of domains is a completely automated process. There are
no humans anywhere in the loop of domain creation and management, unless
there is a technical problem in that process, or the customer has a
problem. I know, I used to work for a mid-size registrar.

Smaller domains (small countries TLD) might have people in the loop,
due to low volume, but theres hundreds of thousand created, deleted
and modified domains in the big three (.com/.net/.org) every day. Almost
none of them comes to human attention from creation to deletion years
after.

> or another. I wonder if it's possible to register a domain with the name
> George W Bush or F. Castro..

Considering then number of domains I've seen registered with a well known
address at the North Pole... you won't have a problem. As I said, no
human will ever set his eyes on your registration, until the time there's
a problem with it (which happened to me, when one of my customers did
ask for a domain transfer, and had problems proving his ownership of the
domain - I kept telling him he obviously wasn't Santa Claus, and I wasn't
moving the domain until I got a copy of Santa Claus' ID)

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Vincent ARCHER - archer () frmug org