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

[Damian Guppy]

Essentially this is a case of 'scope creep' - microsoft has been
successfully getting orders to sieze domains for much more serious cases
where the domains had no legitimate use, and slowly they have been getting
more and more loose and the judge who has limited technical knowledge has
gotten complacent with microsofts requests, gone "oh this is just another
like last time" and given it approval.

--Damian


On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 8:26 AM, 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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