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[ NNSquad ] No-IP's Formal Statement on Microsoft Takedown
No-IP's Formal Statement on Microsoft Takedown
https://www.noip.com/blog/2014/06/30/ips-formal-statement-microsoft-takedown/
We want to update all our loyal customers about the service outages
that many of you are experiencing today. It is not a technical issue.
This morning, Microsoft served a federal court order and seized 22 of
our most commonly used domains because they claimed that some of the
subdomains have been abused by creators of malware. We were very
surprised by this. We have a long history of proactively working with
other companies when cases of alleged malicious activity have been
reported to us. Unfortunately, Microsoft never contacted us or asked
us to block any subdomains, even though we have an open line of
communication with Microsoft corporate executives.
We have been in contact with Microsoft today. They claim that their
intent is to only filter out the known bad hostnames in each seized
domain, while continuing to allow the good hostnames to resolve.
However, this is not happening. Apparently, the Microsoft
infrastructure is not able to handle the billions of queries from our
customers. Millions of innocent users are experiencing outages to
their services because of Microsofts attempt to remediate hostnames
associated with a few bad actors.
Had Microsoft contacted us, we could and would have taken
immediate action. Microsoft now claims that it just wants to get
us to clean up our act, but its draconian actions have affected
millions of innocent Internet users.
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Nice work Microsoft. With friends like you, innocent customers don't
need enemies. Maybe some infrastructure planning next time before
you go running off to the courts to take over domains? Hmm?
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Founder:
- Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org
- PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info
Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info
Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
I am a consultant to Google -- I speak only for myself, not for them.
Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com
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Twitter: http://twitter.com/laurenweinstein
Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com
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