Directi Suspends 50,000 Domains
The domain registrar Directi announced that it has suspended more than 175,000 domain names. Of those, over 50,000 were “involved in various types of abuse, such as spamming, phishing/spoofing, malware perpetration, suspected pedopornography, financial frauds and falsified ‘Whois’ information.”
Directi is targeting “bad actors” who engage in various forms of spam, phishing, and other harmful activities. For example, their analysis looked for bulk registrations of multiple domains with slight variations in the domain — e.g., 018xyz.com, 018xyb.com, 018xyzc.com, etc. — and for domains that use blacklisted nameservers.
Directi disabled their privacy protection service for more than 500,000 domain names.
The move has touched off a discussion at the WebmasterWorld forum over whether a registrar should act as “the domain police” or whether a registrar’s job is merely to register domains for paying customers.
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December 15th, 2009 at 2:22 am
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