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There is a big effort right now by one of the working groups at ICANN to review dns abuse. They’re trying to address it because it IS a big problem. Even though the latest report says it’s going down globally. https://www.icann.org/en/blogs/details/icann-publishes-dns-a...

They are addressing it, though, and I believe there is a place for public comments.

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The idea that these entirely ordinary uses of DNS constitute as "DNS abuse" is ridiculous.

Sure, maybe phishing and botnets are bad. (Just like maybe daily stormer, kiwifarms and reddit are bad). They're still all perfectly ordinary DNS users, they're not "abusing" DNS.

A botnet using botnet.com to find the IP address of the C&C server is no different than everyone else using google.com to find the IP address of the search engine.

I clicked on the article, and read it; then I clicked on the report. In neither did I find an explanation of what is meant by "DNS abuse".

“DNS abuse” in that context means “people pointing DNS records at servers with content I don’t like :(“

Unlike the name suggests, this has nothing to do with actual abuse of the domain name system.

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