Comments on: National Physical Laboratory of the UK Selected to Conduct a gTLD Whois Privacy and Proxy Abuse Study http://blog.icann.org/2012/04/national-physical-laboratory-of-the-uk-selected-to-conduct-a-gtld-whois-privacy-and-proxy-abuse-study/ Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers Sat, 27 Apr 2013 14:54:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Jim Fleming http://blog.icann.org/2012/04/national-physical-laboratory-of-the-uk-selected-to-conduct-a-gtld-whois-privacy-and-proxy-abuse-study/comment-page-1/#comment-26957 Jim Fleming Wed, 02 May 2012 16:11:12 +0000 http://blog.icann.org/?p=3931#comment-26957 Changes being made to the DNS RESOLVERs in the CPE devices could impact SERVER-SIDE studies.

Also, new DNS service providers in the Service-Oriented-Architecture (SOA) may add or subtract value that again would not be seen in the SERVER-SIDE studies. [OpenDNS is one example of a Reputation DNS Service]

With http://PRE.FIX.DNS what some people call gTLDs move to the LEFT of the Domain and .COM. That is done in the RESOLVER with no change to the legacy SERVER-SIDE DNS.

An example of PRE.FIX.DNS would be .WWW which takes a domain such as ICANN.WWW and resolves it as http://WWW.ICANN.COM.

The PRE.FIX.DNS for .CA (CAlifornia) starts with ICANN.CA and attempts to resolve it as CA.ICANN.COM.

Because the changes to the DNS software are out in the field far from the SERVER-SIDE DNS databases, it is almost impossible to study the entire picture (accurately).

Another migration plan could also impact studies. The legacy .COM database can be incrementally (dynamically) cloned as the move is made to Peer-2-Peer DNS. Changes can then be made to the cloned information as the legacy database is phased out.

]]> By: Anoni http://blog.icann.org/2012/04/national-physical-laboratory-of-the-uk-selected-to-conduct-a-gtld-whois-privacy-and-proxy-abuse-study/comment-page-1/#comment-26955 Anoni Wed, 02 May 2012 15:25:40 +0000 http://blog.icann.org/?p=3931#comment-26955 This study is a waste of time.
It is widely known that criminals use false whois information and have no use for whois privacy.
Thus, the extent to which gTLD domain names involved in illegal or harmful Internet activities are registered via Privacy or Proxy services to obscure the perpetrator’s identity will be low.

ICANN is welcome to remit payment for the already known results of the study to my Paypal account.

]]> By: Jim Fleming http://blog.icann.org/2012/04/national-physical-laboratory-of-the-uk-selected-to-conduct-a-gtld-whois-privacy-and-proxy-abuse-study/comment-page-1/#comment-26947 Jim Fleming Mon, 30 Apr 2012 19:20:23 +0000 http://blog.icann.org/?p=3931#comment-26947 It should not come as a surprise to people that WHOIS always seems to be more of an ICANN priority than DNS.

WHOIS and DNS are different protocols – history will likely show what a mistake it was to weave those together
DNS does not require WHOIS

…a better Internet may be one without both 1984 WHOIS and (legacy) DNS

http://bitcoin.org/ has more info on the new Peer-2-Peer Currency, Digital Wallets, and DNS

People are invited to move to a better Internet or remain as pawns to be studied…♚ ♛ ♜ ♝ ♞ ♟

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