A domain registrar offers domain registration services and sometimes hosting or email services as well. They must be accredited by organizations like ICANN. This document discusses abuse from the perspective of a registrar, including different types of genuine abuse, how abuse impacts registrars, and challenges in identifying and addressing abuse. It also notes increasing regulatory pressure around preventing abuse.

1. BLACKNIGHTDomain Registrar – Hosting Provider

2. What Is A Registrar? (In case you
don’t know J )
§ Offers domain registration services often
combined with hosting / email (not
always)
§ Accredited by ICANN and / or ccTLD
registry eg. Nic.it, Nominet

3. Why is this relevant to RIPE?
§ Impacts members
§ Members may offer similar services..
§ Everything is inter-connected J

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§ Abuse – A Registrar’s Perspective
§ Genuine abuse
§ “abuse”

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§ Registrars Are Not Evil (honest!)

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§ Abuse desks costs money
§ No income
§ Why run one?
§ Reputation?
§ Pressure (more on that later)

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§ Genuine abuse
§ Spam
§ Phishing
§ Credit card fraud
§ Identity theft

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§ Impact of Abuse
§ Reputation / PR
§ Security
§ Tangible costs (bottomline)
§ Impact on other users
§ Impact from other users (spam, mail load, traffic,
DDOS etc)

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§ How To Track it and (hopefully) stop it
ú - feedback loops eg. AOL
ú -internal monitoring (mail + bandwidth)
ú -External tools / reports (eg. Google’s Safe
Browsing Alerts)
ú - back channels

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§ What does not help
ú - spurious “abuse” reports
ú -legal mumbo jumbo BEFORE the meat
ú -multiple reports
ú - incorrect reports (ie. Not the right
network / registrar / anything else)

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§ KISS
ú Clear and simple
ú Type of abuse
ú Location / Source (URL / IP)

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§ Regulatory Pressures & Activity
ú - possible changes to RAA
ú -US and other govts
ú Registry operators (eg. Conficker)
ú -law enforcement
ú - self-regulation

13. BLACKNIGHT
§ Michele Neylon
§ Founder / CEO Blacknight (blacknight.com)
§ Registrar / hosting provider. ICANN, Eurid & more
§ Contact: http://mneylon.tel