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. > > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Seun Ojedeji,Federal University Oye-Ekitiweb: http://www.fuoye.edu.ng <http://www.fuoye.edu.ng> Mobile: +2348035233535**alt email: <http://goog_1872880453>[log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>* The key to understanding is humility - my view !