Looks like Gadi Evron, security researcher from Israel CERT, a well-known botnet expert, and frequent presenter at DefCon, is quite pissed at GNR, the company behind .name top-level domain. Not sure what the story is, since their whois seems to work fine for me (that is, there’s no data available for most of the searches), but according to Wired, GNR is now charging $2 for 24-hour access to its whois database:
That’s $2 too much for security researcher Gadi Evron, one of the leading authorities on zombie computer networks. “What they have done is made sure the .name TLD is free haven for bad guys to lurk on,” Evron said. “If I need to report 1,000 domains, I’m not going pay $2,000.”
Not sure how it’s different from private registration of .com and .net domains, offered by many registrars. They won’t divulge the data either, unless subpoenaed, and theoretically a phishing site could just hide behind a more generic TLD with private registration.
