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Whois Masking Considered Harmful

• Comment posted Nov 26, 2008 5:53 pm PST — by Thomas Kuehne
  > We find websites used for money [...] scams etc hiding behind domains > registered with whois privacy. Whois privacy has fast become synonymous > with lack of accountability. Partially true. The real problem isn't to identify the operators -…

Examining Actual State of IPv6 Deployment

• Comment posted Jan 26, 2008 2:45 pm PST — by Thomas Kuehne
  At least one upstream DNS server was very "helpful" and returned IPv4 embedded in IPv6 (e.g. ::FFFF:1.2.3.4) when asked for IPv6 records… Thus the above table is meaningless. I've repeated the survey this time filtering fake IPv6 records and using…

IP is Personal Says Head of the European Union

• Comment posted Jan 22, 2008 8:19 pm PST — by Thomas Kuehne
  But these exceptions have not stopped the emergence of a host of "whois" Internet sites that apply the general rule that typing in an IP address will generate a name for the person or company linked to it. Huh? Those…

Aging the Internet Prematurely, One PDP at a Time

• Comment posted Jul 03, 2007 10:23 am PDT — by Thomas Kuehne
  Historically, however, we leave that question to the market where there’s someone willing to give it a shot. True, however TLDs are a very restricted marked. The bureaucracy of creating and managing one isn't the main problem. The real stumbling…

The Fragile Network

• Comment posted Jan 20, 2007 12:48 pm PST — by Thomas Kuehne
  One of the more persistent founding myths around the internet is that it was designed to be able to withstand a nuclear war, [...] It isn’t true, of course. The internet is a sandwich of different layers. The basic protocol…