A cooling-off period between domain name registration and use to help protect the good guys is a proposal from internet pioneer and CEO of DNS threat intelligence firm Farsight Security Paul Vixie, reports Dark Reading.There’s no legitimate reason for a newly registered domain name to go live in less than a minute said Vixie. “My challenge: Come up with a non-criminal reason you might need that” speed of setting up a new domain name, he said.Vixie gave a presentation that covered domain name abuse at last month’s RSA Conference in San Francisco. As part of his presentation he said the new generation of inexpensive and quick-to-deploy new domain names are good news for bad guys and bad news for good guys.Later in an interview with Dark Reading, Vixie detailed his own proposal of a “cooling-off period” for DNS providers to activate new domains, a strategy he says would help minimize domain abuse.Domain names go as cheap as $10 apiece now, he notes, and are created in less than 30 seconds. “I cannot find a non-malicious [reason] why would want a large number of cheap domain names [activated] in less than 30 seconds,” he said. “We’ve seen how it benefits criminals” in their online activity.Vixie’s proposal involved placing new domain names in a temporary “penalty box” for a few minutes or hours could deter malicious activity. “If they still exist then and are not taken down … and are not in a reputation system [blacklist], that means there’s probably nothing wrong with them.”To read the Dark Reading article in full, go to:
www.darkreading.com/cloud/vixie-proposes-cooling-off-period-for-new-domains-to-deter-cybercrime/d/d-id/1320310