-----Original Message----- From: Heath Jones Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2010 3:24 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: New hijacking - Done via via good old-fashioned Identity Theft
Wouldn't it have to be illegal before punishments could be determined? Isn't this kind of key to the whole issue of fighting spam?? (Is there even a point if you cant nail them for it?)
This conversation isn't really about spam. It is about being able to obtain the number resources of a defunct organization by masquerading as that organization by registering an identical business entity or operating name. So foo.com has legitimately obtained number resources. Foo.com goes broke and those resources are no longer in use. Joe Blow registers an operation he calls foo.com and claims the right to use those number resources. I don't care if those resources are being used for spam or giving away free money to the needy, that is beside the point. The issue as I see it is to raise awareness that just because foo.com wants to announce resources and just because that WHOIS says those resources belong to foo.com, it doesn't mean that the two are the same foo.com Having an organization come to you wanting to announce a /18 of network space (that was allocated 10 years ago) and their domain was only created a week ago might be a clue. G