[AusNOG] Microsoft is playing with a certain dynamic DNS service...

[Skeeve Stevens]

How the hell can Microsoft just seize a whole domain if there is some abuse
from some sub-domains?

I mean.. law enforcement is one thing (and still not cool), but Microsoft?
I don't understand... surely there is more to this story.


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On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Giles Pollock <glp71s at gmail.com> wrote:

> More a headsup than anything, but it seems Microsoft has gone an seized a
> whole pile of domains from No-IP, and many are no longer resolving.
> It has affected dns resolution on some of my much older sites, nothing
> critical, other than some broken links out there which still point to the
> old names.
>
> No-IP's blog post on the matter:
> http://www.noip.com/blog/
>
> Seems a little heavy handed by Microsoft really... I can't help but
> imagine Homer Simpson's Compu-Global-Hyper-Mega-Net being "bought out" by
> Bill Gates...
>
> Giles
>
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