Re Whois is dead as Europe hands DNS overlord ICANN its arse

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: "Wendy M. Grossman" <wendyg () pelicancrossing net>
> Date: April 15, 2018 at 3:14:39 PM EDT
> To: dave () farber net
> Subject: Re: [IP] Re Whois is dead as Europe hands DNS overlord ICANN its arse
>
> For IP if you wish.
>
> > On 2018-04-15 12:01, Phil Pennick wrote:
> >
> > There are more reasons to use WHOIS than for assertions of
> > copyright/trademark rights or more generally than for making
> > accusations.
>
> Whois is a valuable tool for security practitioners and researchers and
> journalists, too - you want to establish who's behind a fraudulent site,
> or contact someone because their site's been hacked, etc. Losing quick
> access to Whois is a big issue in cybersecurity.
>
> Brian Krebs wrote a big piece about this a month or two back:
>
> https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/03/who-is-afraid-of-more-spams-and-scams/
>
> wg
>
>
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