We have reached a resolution regarding our DNS problem with BulkRegister. Meetings were had, apologies were offered and promises made. In the end, no system can 100% guard against human error, and they assure us that was the root problem here. We’re now faced with the choice of staying with BulkRegister, who now promises never to turn off skweezer.net again, or find another company whose trustworthiness has yet to be tested. For our part, we feel that now that our account has been admitted into BulkRegister’s theoretical gold club it’s worth staying with them and fostering this relationship.
Question: if someone claims {choose: (ask/yahoo/google/microsoft).com} is a fraudulent site, are they automatically disabled? I think not. What does it take to get in this club? Why is there a club in the first place?
We have learned that DNS is really an unavoidable single point of failure for a web company and deserves equal security attention/planning as network, hardware, and power. This saga also demonstrates how going after the registrar and not the ISP or hosting company of phishers is most effective; it really cuts a site off at the knees. For my part, I am tired of being on the wrong end of the digilantes who don’t understand that Skweezer is a mobilizing web proxy service, not a copyright infringer or phishing portal. That’s partly why I have this blog, so that one of these posts will be one of the top search results for “skweezer phishing” or “skweezer is stealing my content!” For all of you who got here and still are wondering: No, it’s not.
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