MS vs No-IP - gives back Domains

[submix8c]

http://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2014/07/02/microsoft-gives-up-control-of-no-ip-websites-it-wiped-off-the-web/

[jaclaz]

As I see it the issue is not about the malware and the few millions subscribers/customers of No-Ip that suffered the black out, but a lot about MS self-appointing as Internet Police (actually Internet Vigilante) and to a Federal Judge actually authorizing that.

 

A couple related articles:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140701/07252927743/dangerous-ruling-judge-lets-microsoft-seize-redirect-no-ip-domains-without-notice.shtml

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140701/15030927747/microsoft-insists-that-no-ip-outage-was-due-to-technical-error-rather-than-gross-abuse-legal-process.shtml

 

Set apart the point about how good actually is the "good cause to believe" it is unprecedented I believe that a judicial order of such potentially devastating consequences has been granted "filed under seal" and with a bond of only US$ 200,000.

 

The peeps at No-Ip had however a nice comment :

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9249509/Microsoft_admits_technical_error_in_IP_takeover_but_No_IP_still_down

 

No-IP spokeswoman Natalie Goguen wrote via email that Microsoft made a technical change on Tuesday to forward legitimate traffic back to No-IP, but "it didn't do anything."

"Although they seem to be trying to take corrective measures, DNS is hard, and they don't seem to be very good at it," she wrote.

 

 

 

jaclaz