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Placing New Domain Names in Temporary “Penalty Box” Could Deter Malicious Use, Says Paul Vixie

By CircleID Reporter
  • May 06, 2015, 11:18 pm PDT
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Paul Vixie proposes a ‘cooling-off period’ when domain names are registered in order to help detect and deter malicious activity. “There’s no legitimate reason for a new domain name to be registered and go live in less than a minute… Placing new domain names in a temporary ‘penalty box’ for a few minutes or hours could deter malicious activity. If they still exist then and are not taken down and are not in a reputation system [blacklist], that means there’s probably nothing wrong with them.”

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