Re: [gnso-ff-pdp-may08] Jump start on answering GNSO questions regarding fast flux

[Eric Brunner-Williams <ebw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Marc,

I operate a micro-registrar, am CTO for a larger (but still, not major) 
registrar, which also operates two registry backends. ICANN doesn't 
suspend domains, if anything, eventually, it encourages registrars to 
meet their contractual requirements to the registrants, and registries, 
and to ICANN. The eventual form of "encouragement" is deaccreditation, 
see RegisterFly and two smaller registrars recently deaccredited. The 
only "nameservers" of interest that ICANN "controls" are the IANA root 
servers, and that's (a) not germane to FF, and (b) the word "control" 
really isn't without nuances. So, those are reasonable novice questions, 
but they lead to dead ends.
One of the possible mechanisms available to all of us is the "knob" on 
how frequently registries and/or registrars all NS records to be 
updated. There are others.
Rather than asking ICANN for data (which it doesn't actually have), you 
may want to build views from the zone files, which you can obtain by 
contract with each registry, e.g., Verisign.
I'm glad to see someone from you part of the industry involved. For most 
of the purposes of this exercise "we" (this policy development process' 
bottom-up stakeholder participants) "are" (presently) "ICANN" (modulo 
the fact that we're not the GNSO Council, nor the Board of Directors) 
assisted by the ever helpful ICANN staffer(s) assigned to this PDP, Liz 
and possibly also Glen. Mike O'Conner, who I suspect you know through 
your constituency, is our chair.
Eric

Marc Perkel wrote:
> Hello, I'm marc Perkel owner of junk Email Filter. we are a spam 
> filtering company. And I tend to be very innovate when it comes to 
> sollutions to problems.
> I have a question about the process. In order to get to a solution I 
> need to know what the options are. I assume icann can suspend domains 
> of people who cause trouble. ICANN can control anything on its own 
> nameservers. I assume ICANN can control how often name server settings 
> can be changed? Or does the registrars do that?
> Can ICANN provide additional information about a domain using DNS. For 
> example, I used DNS to provide blacklist/whitelist information about 
> IP addresses and domain names. If - for example, I could read the age 
> of a domain and read the number of times the dame servers changed I 
> could identify fraud and phishing going through our servers. Extra 
> info can help me block spam and make phishing unprofitable.
> Is this a possibility?