Hello Timothe,

Thanks for bringing this up here; when i first read the news of Microsoft
hijacking no-ip domain. The first technical question that came to mind was;
Is Microsoft now some form of an hacker because i was just wondering how
they took-over without any form of authorisation from the domain owner.
However i guess the section below from your url clears it for me

Under the terms of the court decision, the DNS lookups for the domains were
> passed to Microsoft's name servers, with the plan being that Redmond would
> filter out No-IP subdomains linked to malicious activity and let legitimate
> subdomains resolve as expected.
>

Having cleared the technical sides of the story, the question now is
whether no-ip should bound to respond to such call from Microsoft
especially since its not an act from no-ip itself but the users. One could
liken this to running botnets on systems that exist on a large ISP network
to attack a particular organisation. Does the victim sue the ISP or the
users who don't even know they are botnet nodes.

Cheers!


On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 3:51 PM, Timothe Litt <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I haven't been following things here for a while, so sorry if this has
> already been noticed.
>
> If not, here's a case of judicial interference with the DNS, coupled
> with incompetent 'solutions'.
>
> This is highly relevant to the ncsg constituency as many non-commercial
> users live with dynamic IP addresses, using services such as no-ip to
> have stable names in the DNS.
>
> Of course, our terms of membership can be read to exclude these users -
> but note that there's nothing to prevent a similar action being taken
> against direct holders of domain names...
>
> Here's the story:
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/07/01/sorry_chaps_microsoft_unborks_legitimate_noip_users_domains/
>
> The comments provide more detail - which for technical readers is tragic.
>
> --
> Timothe Litt
> ACM Distinguished Engineer
> --------------------------
> This communication may not represent the ACM or my employer's views,
> if any, on the matters discussed.
>
>
>


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