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> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Abhishek Verma > Sent: 18 August 2005 10:20 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Blocking certain terrorism/porn sites and DNS > > > Hi, > > I have a doubt which i am sure a lot of people in this list > would be able to help me with. > > There was news that terror groups like Al Qaida, etc. are > using internet to promote their terror links and these web > sites provide online training on how one could assemble bombs, etc. > > The community as a whole wants to close all such web sites. I > dont think there is any ambiguity there. > > My question is why cant we ban websites like, say, > alqaida.com (hypothetical name), etc. from the whois database. > > As far as i understand if there is a website with the name of > www.abc.com then it needs to register itself with the whois > database (from network solutions) so that all the queries to > this website can be forwarded to the corresponding > nameserver. Now, if we want to block abc.com permanently then > cant we simply remove this URL entry from the whois database? > > Will this work? It would stop them using whichever hostnames you banned but do you really think this would stop them using the internet. Terrorist1: Mmmm seems the internet community have put a stop to us using www.bombsrus.com Terrorist2: Ok right lets give up and strive for world peace instead. I don't think so :) More likely they will (and already are) hiding behind very non terror sounding names, not a lot we can do about that really. Brett.. -- Brett Carr Ripe Network Coordination Centre System Engineer -- Operations Group Singel 258 Amsterdam NL GPG Key fingerprint = F20D B2A7 C91D E370 44CF F244 B6A1 EF48 E743 F7D8
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