Spamhaus Nightmare: Domain Shut Down, No Notice, Over A Million Pages Down

Re:Spamhaus Nightmare: Domain Shut Down, No Notice, Over A M... by seanp2k2 on Friday December 30, 2011 @05:56PM (#3409466)

We deal with spamhaus. They have false positives just like every other blacklist. I'd agree that most blacklist opers are pretty removed from the realities of hosting / running a site / large community.

Your registrar pulling your domain for this is ridiculous. I would switch ASAP to someone who cares more about their clients.

This, however, is just a symptom of a bigger issue: DNS is fundamentally broken. We need a scalable, open-source, free alternative solution for SSL and DNS that does not rely on any central authority. Namecoin seems cool and it'd be sweet if people started using that.

The other idea is to have a new "anti censorship" root zone, and mirror all COM/NET/ORG etc TLDs. We could pass around this info and in the event of mass censorship, people could migrate onto the new root servers.

We're putting way too much power in the hands of ICANN / Verisign / any random registrar or host with our current system.

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Re:Spamhaus Nightmare: Domain Shut Down, No Notice, Over A M... by lordlicorice on Saturday December 31, 2011 @07:47AM (#3410775)

Well it also costs a lot of money to operate those servers and to operate administrative stuff that ICANN does. Who will pay?

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Re:Spamhaus Nightmare: Domain Shut Down, No Notice, Over A M... by mikehoward on Saturday December 31, 2011 @10:19AM (#3411010)

You're selling red herring.

I pay for DNS and hosting - it's 'just another bill'

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Re:Spamhaus Nightmare: Domain Shut Down, No Notice, Over A M... by jerfelix on Wednesday January 04, 2012 @03:26PM (#3425749)

Namecoin is crowd-hosted in a peer-to-peer network. Problem solved. Or it WOULD be solved, if everyone used it.

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