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Re:Prosecutors allege Micfo obtained 800k IPv4 addresses ill... by Animats on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @04:31PM (#22360612)
Well, there are the fake registrars, such as DropCatch 345, DropCatch 346, DropCatch 347, ... DropCatch 1545. Those are all ICANN-accredited registrars.[1] ICANN parcels out dropped domains among all the registrars who want them at random. Having a thousand dummy registrars improves the odds. That's definitely "structuring" to hog Internet assets.

This is possible only because, while ICANN charges each registry when they acquire a domain, ICANN refunds that if they give the domain back within some time period.

[1] https://www.icann.org/registrar-reports/accreditation-qualif...

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Re:Prosecutors allege Micfo obtained 800k IPv4 addresses ill... by jacquesm on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @04:55PM (#22360792)
ICANN is utterly dysfunctional, see .org debacle.
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Re:Prosecutors allege Micfo obtained 800k IPv4 addresses ill... by Wowfunhappy on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @07:21PM (#22361867)
The .org debacle is evidence that ICANN is corrupt, not dysfunctional. That's an important distinction.
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Re:Prosecutors allege Micfo obtained 800k IPv4 addresses ill... by naniwaduni on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @08:25PM (#22362256)
It's both. You could say that the .org debacle more strongly indicates corruption than dysfunction, but it's definitely both with strong ties between them.
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Re:Prosecutors allege Micfo obtained 800k IPv4 addresses ill... by Wowfunhappy on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @08:28PM (#22362283)
How is it both?

They knew exactly what they were doing.

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Re:Prosecutors allege Micfo obtained 800k IPv4 addresses ill... by naniwaduni on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @08:36PM (#22362326)
The fact that they knew exactly what they were doing does not contradict that what they were doing is dysfunctional. If anything, it is the dysfunction.
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Re:Prosecutors allege Micfo obtained 800k IPv4 addresses ill... by comex on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @03:31AM (#22363921)
As strange and dysfunctional as that is, DropCatch isn't trying to deceive ICANN into thinking those registrars are unrelated companies, so it's not fraud.
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