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

[Giles Pollock]

I guess we could all start fighting malware by sending all outlook.com and
hotmail.com emails to a blackhole.... Let me just go get my cape and some
extra underwear for the outside of my pants!


On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 11:23 AM, James Hodgkinson <yaleman at ricetek.net>
wrote:

> 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.
>>
>>
>> ...Skeeve
>>
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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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