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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:#1F497D">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.
</span><a href="Http://noticeoflawsuit.com">Http://noticeoflawsuit.com</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">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. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> NCSG-Discuss [mailto:NCSG-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Seun Ojedeji<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, July 8, 2014 11:32 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> NCSG-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [NCSG-Discuss] no-ip<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Hello Timothe,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">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<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">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.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Cheers!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 3:51 PM, Timothe Litt <<a href="mailto:litt@acm.org" target="_blank">litt@acm.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">I haven't been following things here for a while, so sorry if this has<br>
already been noticed.<br>
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If not, here's a case of judicial interference with the DNS, coupled<br>
with incompetent 'solutions'.<br>
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This is highly relevant to the ncsg constituency as many non-commercial<br>
users live with dynamic IP addresses, using services such as no-ip to<br>
have stable names in the DNS.<br>
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Of course, our terms of membership can be read to exclude these users -<br>
but note that there's nothing to prevent a similar action being taken<br>
against direct holders of domain names...<br>
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Here's the story:<br>
<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/07/01/sorry_chaps_microsoft_unborks_legitimate_noip_users_domains/" target="_blank">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/07/01/sorry_chaps_microsoft_unborks_legitimate_noip_users_domains/</a><br>
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The comments provide more detail - which for technical readers is tragic.<br>
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<span class="hoenzb">--</span><br>
<span class="hoenzb">Timothe Litt</span><br>
<span class="hoenzb">ACM Distinguished Engineer</span><br>
<span class="hoenzb">--------------------------</span><br>
<span class="hoenzb">This communication may not represent the ACM or my employer's views,</span><br>
<span class="hoenzb">if any, on the matters discussed.</span><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><i><span style="font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#006600">Seun Ojedeji,<br>
Federal University Oye-Ekiti<br>
web: </span></i><a href="http://www.fuoye.edu.ng" target="_blank"><i><span style="font-family:"Garamond","serif"">http://www.fuoye.edu.ng</span></i></a><i><span style="font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#888888"><br>
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