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

[James Hodgkinson]

On that basis, can we start suing them for promoting an insecure and
bug-filled piece of garbage operating system for decades?

James


On 2 July 2014 10:26, Skeeve Stevens <skeeve+ausnog at eintellegonetworks.com>
wrote:

> 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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