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Nominet Issues Spoofing Warning

April 9, 2008 by Michele Neylon

In common with many domain registries Nominet relies heavily on email for communication to registrars AND registrants.

Unfortunately they seem to have been the target of some spoofing in recent days

It sounds like they’ve been the victims of a “Joe Job”, where a spammer basically “hijacks” a person or organisation’s domain when sending mails.

More information is available on the Nominet site.

Of course the question I have to ask is why on earth Nominet aren’t publishing SPF records. If they did it would help. It wouldn’t eradicate the problem, but it would certainly help mitigate it.

Unfortunately they don’t seem to be publishing any judging by the output of a simple:
dig txt nominet.org.uk

Maybe this recent spate of attacks will lead to a change in policy.

Filed Under: ccTLDs, nominet, phishing, registries, spam Tagged With: email, nominet, phishing, spam, spf, spoof

About Michele Neylon

Michele is founder and managing director of Irish domain registrar and hosting company Blacknight. Michele has been deeply involved in domain and internet policy discussions for more than a decade.
He also co-hosts the Technology.ie podcast.

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