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Fight Spam With the DNS, Not the CIA

• Comment posted Jul 09, 2003 2:57 pm PDT — by Mark Jeftovic
  There is a recent proposal around this idea called Reverse MX or RMX. An internet draft exists at http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-danisch-dns-rr-smtp-02.txt and the author maintains a site at http://www.danisch.de/work/security/antispam.html I think its an idea whose time cannot come fast enough.

Whither DNS?

• Comment posted Sep 14, 2005 9:50 pm PDT — by Mark Jeftovic
  Do you want an open standards-based internet or a closed proprietary one? All of your examples of systems that don't require DNS: skype, AOL, MSN are closed proprietary systems. They work, but they're a pain to inter-operate (if at all).…

The Credible Threat

• Comment posted Feb 28, 2006 7:09 pm PST — by Mark Jeftovic
  Michael, I'm not sure this is happening quite as surmised. As I just posted, there are now entries under .cn for .com.cn and .net.cn with SOA serials dated March 1, 2006. If you reread the article, you can see there…

OpenDNS: It's Not SiteFinder for Obvious Reasons

• Comment posted Jan 01, 2007 5:02 am PST — by Mark Jeftovic
  Example: What’s to stop opendns from making a bit of extra dough by sending 1% of, say google.com lookups to theirsearchsite.dom and monetizing the traffic (and probably causing lots of unexpectged ugly side effects despite efforts not to).  Saying their…

AFNIC and DNS Server Redelegation

• Comment posted Dec 15, 2006 2:52 pm PST — by Mark Jeftovic
  Sorry about the confusion about the RFC1912 serial, that was my mistake.

• Comment posted Dec 15, 2006 5:22 am PST — by Mark Jeftovic
  Allowing TCP or not aside, AFNIC also insists on RFC1912 style serials in the SOA as another reason for refusing delegations, which I'm sure is fine for the theological purists, but there really is no reason for a registry to…

Domain Aftermarket Overdue for an "Asset Repricing"

• Comment posted Apr 27, 2007 4:52 am PDT — by Mark Jeftovic
  Robert Haastrup-Timmi said: I make an excellent daily/monthly return on a lot of my domains that have no natural type-in traffic whatsoever, simply by optimising them through search engines and most of them are parked! Therefore I could prove to…

• Comment posted Apr 27, 2007 3:30 am PDT — by Mark Jeftovic
  Snoopy said: Over the top, we have gone from one extreme to the other. Your blog article has almost as many errors in it as Mark's. Yes I know Snoopy, I botched the numbers big time, you know I copped…

• Comment posted Apr 27, 2007 3:20 am PDT — by Mark Jeftovic
  Robert Haastrup-Timmi said: Mark!...that's a bit like saying don't hold on to your disney shares back in 1955 Actually it's more like saying "Sell VA Linux" back in January 2001. The point, is all assets appreciate in value over time…