NXDOMAIN data needed for survey

Martin Hannigan hannigan at gmail.com
Fri Mar 21 06:29:05 UTC 2008


On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Steve Atkins <steve at blighty.com> wrote:

[ snip ]

>  I wonder who he's paying for his nxdomain data, and whether that
>  someone is authorized to sell it. It strikes me that it's just a small
>  step for someone with access to ISP internal data to go from selling
>  DNS logs to selling usernames too.

This is tip of the iceberg level activity. These people are exploiting
"unique identifiers" i.e. domains names and IP addresses. We need to
fear them, and respond appropriately. They are disruptive to the
Internet, to the users and commerce.


-M<



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