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	<title>&#45; CircleID</title>
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	<description>Postings from  on CircleID</description>
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	<dc:date>2026-04-14T18:21:00+00:00</dc:date>

	
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		<title> ICANN Complaint System Easily Gamed (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ICANN's WDPRS system has been defeated. The system is intended to remove or correct fraudulently registered domains, but it does not work anymore. Yesterday I submitted a memo to the leadership of the ICANN At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) and the greater At-Large community. The memo concerns the details of a 214-day saga of complaints about a single domain used for trafficking opioids. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20140314_icann_complaint_system_easily_gamed">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-14T11:21:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> Narcotics Traffic Is Not Part of a Healthy Domain System (Featured Blog)</title>
		<guid isPermaLink="true">https://circleid.com/posts20170215_narcotics_traffic_is_not_part_of_a_healthy_domain_system</guid>
		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20170215_narcotics_traffic_is_not_part_of_a_healthy_domain_system</link>
		<description><![CDATA[A stack contrast is emerging within the DNS between providers who tolerate blatantly illegal domain use and those who do not. Our study, just published here focuses on five U.S.-based providers, their policies, and their response to reports of opioid traffic within their registry or registrar. There are many providers, not covered here, who removed hundreds of domains selling opioids and I applaud their efforts. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20170215_narcotics_traffic_is_not_part_of_a_healthy_domain_system">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-14T11:21:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> ICANN Fails Consumers (Again) (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20160415_icann_fails_consumers_again</link>
		<description><![CDATA[In its bid to be free of U.S. government oversight ICANN is leaning on the global multistakeholder community as proof positive that its policy-making comes from the ground up. ICANN's recent response to three U.S. senators invokes the input of "end users from all over the world" as a way of explaining how the organization is driven. Regardless of the invocation of the end user (and it must be instinct) ICANN cannot seem to help reaching back and slapping that end user across the face. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20160415_icann_fails_consumers_again">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-14T11:21:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> DotSpam? Certain New gTLDs Rapidly Outpacing Legacy TLDs in Terms of Abuse (Featured Blog)</title>
		<guid isPermaLink="true">https://circleid.com/posts20160308_certain_new_gtlds_rapidly_outpacing_legacy_tlds_in_terms_of_abuse</guid>
		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20160308_certain_new_gtlds_rapidly_outpacing_legacy_tlds_in_terms_of_abuse</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Would you like to hear about how to treat your psoriasis? Where to get a cheap oil change? How to flatten your belly? Achieve a stronger sexual life? Cheap toner? Annuities? Herpes? Bed bugs? Free energy? Varicose-Veins? Herpes? Saggy skin? Arthritis? Overactive bladder? Drug addiction? Herpes? No? Well, that's too bad, because that you are going to hear about it whether you like it or not. Many of the messages about these and other subjects are being carried to you via new gTLDs. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20160308_certain_new_gtlds_rapidly_outpacing_legacy_tlds_in_terms_of_abuse">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-14T11:21:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> Consumer Trust? Not at ICANN Compliance (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20151026_consumer_trust_not_at_icann_compliance</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Every person and every entity must have a philosophy if they are to be successful. Consumer trust is one of the key issues at the heart of keeping the Internet open as well as prosperous. The ICANN Affirmation of Commitments was signed in 2009 and has been the guiding principle for ICANN's activities going forward. The title of section 9.3 is Promoting competition, consumer trust, and consumer choice. This section is in essence the embodiment of the commitment of ICANN. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20151026_consumer_trust_not_at_icann_compliance">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-14T11:21:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> Rape in the DNS (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20140623_rape_in_the_dns</link>
		<description><![CDATA[It took three years for ICANN to issue a breach notice to BizCn over the invalid WHOIS record behind RAPETUBE[DOT]ORG. Throughout the history of this absurd case ICANN staff would repeatedly insist the record had been validated and the registrar was compliant, regardless of extensive evidence proving otherwise. Despite a letter sent to ICANN's CEO and an investigation by the Washington Post, the Rape Tube stayed online. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20140623_rape_in_the_dns">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-14T11:21:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> UDRP Failure Endangers Consumers (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20140618_udrp_failure_endangers_consumers</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I participated in a panel at the International Consumer Product Safety Conference sponsored by the International Consumer Product Health and Safety Organization (ICPHSO) held at the European Commission in Brussels Belgium. This conference brings together the global community of product safety engineers, manufacturers, retailers, regulators, inspectors, and counterfeiting investigators. The role of online fraud and illicit product traffic is clearly one of the conference priorities. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20140618_udrp_failure_endangers_consumers">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-14T11:21:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> Domain Name Registrar Allows Completely Blank WHOIS (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20131006_registrar_allows_completely_blank_whois</link>
		<description><![CDATA[In a very casual and low-key footnote over the weekend, ICANN announced it would be further bypassing the Affirmation of Commitments and ignoring the WHOIS Review Team Report. There will be no enhanced validation or verification of WHOIS because unidentified people citing unknown statistics have said it would be too expensive... As a topic which has burned untold hours of community debate and development, the vague minimalist statement dismisses every ounce of work put in by stakeholders. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20131006_registrar_allows_completely_blank_whois">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-14T11:21:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> ICANN and Your Internet Abuse (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20130924_icann_and_your_internet_abuse</link>
		<description><![CDATA[In spite of the material we were presented with in Durban something has gone very wrong inside of ICANN Compliance. KnujOn has published a report which demonstrates that ICANN Compliance appears to completely collapse between September 2012 and December 2012. Following December 2012, ICANN seems to stop responding to or processing any complaints. It is around this time certain compliance employees start disappearing. This was not limited to the Sydney office as some would have us believe... <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20130924_icann_and_your_internet_abuse">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-14T11:21:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> Compliance Overhaul a NON-Start (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20130130_compliance_overhaul_a_non_start</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Happy New Year, you're fired. While most of us were getting ready celebrate respective holidays, ICANN was quietly closing a critical office and sending all the staff out to look for new jobs. When asked to confirm this, ICANN's delayed response was pure Orwellian Doublethink. The office was closed because ICANN is "assessing how to effectively grow ICANN resources around the globe." How does one grow global resources while shutting down the Asia-Pacific office right before the Asia-Pacific meeting? <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20130130_compliance_overhaul_a_non_start">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-14T11:21:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> Compliance Overhaul a Start (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/postscompliance_overhaul_a_start</link>
		<description><![CDATA[ICANN is clearly changing with the new CEO making immediate changes to the organizational structure and Compliance announcing a number more effective tools and procedures at Sunday's At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) and Regional Leadership Meetings. It seems very ambitious and they will need to be because our year-long research, publicly distributed here for the first time, shows a complete breakdown in ICANN's Compliance functions on every level possible. <a href="https://circleid.com/postscompliance_overhaul_a_start">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-14T11:21:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> Accountability, Transparency, and... Consistency? (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20120627_accountability_transparency_andconsistency</link>
		<description><![CDATA[ICANN Compliance now has two conflicting answers on record concerning the enforceability of RAA 378 on WHOIS inaccuracy. This is a topic of extreme importance and one we are trying to get to the bottom of. ...inconsistency needs to be resolved as it directly impacts the current RAA negotiations and certainly before new gTLDs are deployed. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20120627_accountability_transparency_andconsistency">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-14T11:21:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> WHOIS Review and Beyond 3.7.8 (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20120618_whois_review_and_beyond_378</link>
		<description><![CDATA[We have posted our support of the WHOIS Policy Review Team Report with two important comments. First, on page 79 of the report it is confirmed that the RAA is unenforceable on WHOIS inaccuracy (we wrote about this while at the last ICANN meeting) because the language of RAA 3.7.8 has no enforcement provision. It is now time for ICANN to confirm this problem officially.  <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20120618_whois_review_and_beyond_378">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-14T11:21:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> Counter-eCrime Operations Summit (APWG) In Prague Next Week (Featured Blog)</title>
		<guid isPermaLink="true">https://circleid.com/posts20120418_counter_ecrime_operations_summit_apwg_in_prague_next_week</guid>
		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20120418_counter_ecrime_operations_summit_apwg_in_prague_next_week</link>
		<description><![CDATA[The sixth annual Counter-eCrime Operations Summit (CeCOS VI) will engage questions of operational challenges and the development of common resources for the first responders and forensic professionals who protect consumers and enterprises from the ecrime threat every day. This year's meeting will focus on the shifting nature of cybercrime and the attendant challenges of managing that dynamic threatscape. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20120418_counter_ecrime_operations_summit_apwg_in_prague_next_week">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-14T11:21:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> Fake Bank Site, Fake Registrar (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20120327_fake_bank_site_fake_registrar</link>
		<description><![CDATA[In our continuing review of Rogue Registrars we have stumbled upon on a very elaborate fake banking site for "Swiss Bank" or "Bank of Switzerland". To the casual Internet consumer this site probably appears legitimate, but a number of clues tip off the fraud. Phishing sites are everywhere so this does not immediately raise eyebrows until you review the Thick WHOIS record for the domain. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20120327_fake_bank_site_fake_registrar">More...</a>]]></description>
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