Hello,
I bet you are wondering where KnujOn has been. Well, since releasing our
comprehensive audit of ICANN Accredited Registrars:
http://www.knujon.com/knujon_audit0610.pdf in June we have been down the
rabbit hole and through the looking glass. The lack of accountability and
compliance within the Internet infrastructure is even worse than we thought.
The scale of corruption and criminal infiltration is deeper than our wildest
guesses. In some areas we have seen dramatic progress since June, in others
we have been disappointed by broken promises. To be sure, our report sent
shockwaves through the industry and some Registrars threatened lawsuits but
quickly backed down. Our focus on the proliferation of illicit counterfeit
prescription drugs through spammed domain names garnered national attention
and possibly influenced the White House meeting
(
http://krebsonsecurity.com/2010/08/whit ... harmacies/) with Registrars which ICANN refused to appear at
(
http://domainincite.com/icann-will-not- ... s-meeting/).
Since the meeting some Registrars have made voluntary pledges to clean up
their space
(
http://domainincite.com/enom-to-crack-d ... rma-sites/). In
reference to ICANN, after our June Registrar audit, KnujOn meet with a
senior member of ICANN compliance staff who promised us action on the
report, an investigation, and a written response to each point within. ICANN
staff pledged to work directly with KnujOn these compliance issues, but this
senior staff member was quietly fired a week later. We were shocked and
demanded answers from ICANN and were again promised a written response in
spite of the unexplained termination of the employee working with us.
However, no response to the more than 160 contract violations reported in
our audit has ever been received from ICANN in the intervening five months.
ICANN has chosen not follow its mandate at the peril of the Internet as a
whole. KnujOn will respond to this appropriately in time.
Client Reports
Many of you experienced problems with your reports and we were at a loss to
explain the problem. The rest of you stopped receiving updated reports in
the last few months and we apologize for this situation. We have finally
discovered the cause was database table corruption. As specific member
tables became corrupt it was impossible to add new data and hence a failure
to publish updated reports. Unfortunately, we were unaware of the corruption
for some time as it only impacted a minority of KnujOn members. However that
number began to grow and even after we discovered the problem it took some
time to fix it. All of your submissions are being processed regardless of
the database issues and the backlog of data has been re-added to a repaired
database. The posted reports are as current as possible at this time.
New Client Reports
KnujOn is an ever-evolving project and we have come to realize that the
current client report format no longer mirrors our updated theories and
methods. In the near future client reports will undergo a transformation of
our process, which is less focused on individual websites and more focused
on the source or problems, whether they be a rogue provider or policy
failure. Our new model accumulates mass Internet abuse data and analyzes
with the goal of identifying problematic conditions as explained in some of
our major published reports. While this is all on a macro scale of profiling
large blocks of the Internet, it is also being scaled down to expose the
negative experience of individual KnujOn members. You may see a draft
version of the new public reports here:
http://www.knujon.com/index.html#data. This may seem similar to previous
provider rating lists published by KnujOn historically, but these now go a
level deeper to explain why and how a particular provider has the most
spammed domains. If you open one of the sub-reports, say this one:
http://www.knujon.com/registrars/ENOM_Log.html, you will notice that more
specific data is obscured. This will not be the case for KnujOn client
reports. KnujOn clients will receive fully weighted and analyzed datasets
using a new algorithm called The KnujOn Tetrahedron, which will hopefully be
published in 2011.
New KnujOn Site
We invite you to see the new KnujOn.com, which is more organized, easier to
navigate and has more data and user tools brought to the front page. More
major revelations by KnujOn and improvements will be found here this month
and early in 2011. Thanks for sticking with us!
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Submission options:
http://www.knujon.com/sendusspam.htmlTo request FTP access, email
[email protected]Knujon Discussion Group at LinkedIn:
http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1870205KnujOn Blog:
http://www.circleid.com/members/3296/Twitter: @ KnujOn
Shop:
http://www.cafepress.com/knujonBookstore:
http://astore.amazon.com/knujocom-20Knujon forum at inboxrevenge.com:
viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1666KnujOn is an all volunteer, un-funded initiative. Our responsibilities have
grown exponentially in the last year and our pay is still zero. We are
committed to this solution and appreciate your patience while we work our
way through the maze of Internet bureaucracy to reduce illicit traffic and
spam.
Thank you for your continued support!
Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2010 5:24 pm 
