[anti-abuse-wg] Russian carding... no, Islandic carding... no Belizian carding!

Agreed.

I do not understand what Ronald F. Guilmette is complaining about or
even what this thread is about...

I own some and operate many other .com domains, I also operate .me (like
example https://wishes.me )

Speaking of which, I recently created this:
https://about.me/andrecoetzee - kinda cool! no?

this does not mean that I am pretending to be in Montenegro, just that
some countries are more open, free and forward thinking and that some 
domain tld's are suitable for custom type names, for example .is
and .in and others. 

So, as I said, I have absolutely no idea what the initial post is even
about at all, maybe Ronald F. Guilmette can point out the ABUSE that
will be super helpful and not seem like such a complete waste of time.

Andre

On Tue, 9 Aug 2016 13:11:21 +0200
Volker Greimann <vgreimann at key-systems.net> wrote:

> Speaking on general terms, not on the specific website, anything you 
> cite could also occur in a legit website. In a globalized world,
> users are free to deal with any service provider they trust and
> register domains in any TLD they chose. There is nothing fishy about
> that per se.
> 
> The domain name string you cite is quite a nice string, which
> probably was not available in many TLDs anymore. Further, the TLD
> sting. ".is" can be used as a hack as it is an English language word.
> 
> Just my 2 cents,
> 
> Volker
> 
> 
> Am 09.08.2016 um 05:14 schrieb Ronald F. Guilmette:
> > https://www.verified.is/   (Gee!  Big surprise!  Russian language
> > only.) -> .IS = Iceland
> > 	-> 82.221.130.101
> >
> > That site is obviously all written in Russian, but it is resident on
> > a little /26 IP address block that's pretending to be owned by a
> > Belizian company.  (See below.)  But of course, it's actually
> > physically sitting in a data center somewhere in Iceland, and on an
> > Icelandic AS.
> >
> > I am seeing this kind of thing almost every day now... bullshit
> > domains sitting on bullshit networks, almost always in RIPE IP
> > space, but all claiming to be in either Belize or UAE.
> >
> > I've given up any hope that posting any of this kind of information
> > here will have any impact on anything, ever.  A part of me wants to
> > scream "Which part of this repeating pattern do you folks not
> > understand?" but I know that doing so here is pointless.  So I'm
> > really only posting this here so that later on, nobdy can say to me
> > "Gee Ron, why didn't you ever say anything to anybody about that?"
> >
> > I did say something.  In fact I said plenty... about both Belize
> > and UAE. It's not my fault if everybody with power and influence
> > within RIPE continued to ignore the now all-too-obvious patterns
> > because the self- evident truths about what's been going on doesn't
> > suit their own financial interests.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > rfg
> >
> > P.S.  At least the .IS domain administrators are looking at possibly
> > suspending the doamin name on the grounds that the registration info
> > "isn't accurate".  I commend them for that.  That's one hell of a
> > lot more than the network operator (AS50613, Advania) is willing to
> > do. Advania didn't even have the courtesy to answer my email, even
> > if only to tell me to go pound sand.
> >
> > =========================================================================
> > inetnum:        82.221.130.64 - 82.221.130.127
> > netname:        ORANGEWEB
> > descr:          OrangeWebsite.com - Network
> > org:            ORG-IL351-RIPE
> > country:        IS
> > admin-c:        OTD3-RIPE
> > tech-c:         OTD3-RIPE
> > status:         ASSIGNED PA
> > mnt-by:         MNT-ADVANIA
> > created:        2016-01-27T15:08:11Z
> > last-modified:  2016-01-27T15:08:11Z
> > source:         RIPE
> >
> > organisation:   ORG-IL351-RIPE
> > org-name:       Icenetworks Ltd.
> > org-type:       OTHER
> > address:        60 Market Square
> > address:        Belize City, Belize   <== I hope they speak Russian
> > down there! e-mail:         sales at orangewebsite.com
> > abuse-c:        OTD3-RIPE
> > mnt-ref:        MNT-ADVANIA
> > mnt-by:         MNT-ADVANIA
> > created:        2014-11-05T10:30:10Z
> > last-modified:  2014-11-05T10:46:28Z
> > source:         RIPE
> >
> > role:           OrangeWebsite.com Technical Department
> > address:        OrangeWebsite.com
> > address:        Klapparstigur 7
> > address:        101 Reykjavik
> > address:        Iceland
> > abuse-mailbox:  abuse at orangewebsite.com
> > e-mail:         support at orangewebsite.com
> > admin-c:        AK12182-RIPE
> > tech-c:         AK12182-RIPE
> > mnt-by:         MNT-ADVANIA
> > nic-hdl:        OTD3-RIPE
> > created:        2013-12-16T09:41:11Z
> > last-modified:  2013-12-16T09:41:11Z
> > source:         RIPE
> >
> > % Information related to '82.221.128.0/19AS50613'
> >
> > route:          82.221.128.0/19
> > descr:          Advania / Thor Data Center
> > origin:         AS50613
> > mnt-by:         THOR-MNT
> > mnt-lower:      THOR-MNT
> > created:        2013-07-30T12:15:23Z
> > last-modified:  2013-07-30T12:15:23Z
> > source:         RIPE
> >
> >
>