Microsoft used some very powerful legal tools, asking for temporary restraining orders, and convinced a judge that the need for immediate action justified those actions. Http://noticeoflawsuit.com
They’ve since been forced to pull back on their response, but I agree with Timothe that this is an issue that requires close attention and has important implications for the ICANN community.
From: NCSG-Discuss [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Seun Ojedeji
Sent: Tuesday, July 8, 2014 11:32 AM
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Subject: Re: [NCSG-Discuss] no-ip
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]<mailto:[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.
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