DIRECTI finally agree to act

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I sent an email to DIRECTI on the same day that I wrote this blog post:
http://msmvps.com/blogs/spywaresucks/archive/2009/01/21/1663955.aspx

The email said, essentially, the same thing that I said in that blog post.

As you can see, they have initiated a “whois inaccuracy complaint” against the domains quigley-simpson.net, hyundai-inc.com, mediavest-corp.com, posnerpromotion.com & singlesnet-inc.com.

Frankly, they should have taken such steps immediately upon receiving the impersonation complaint but at least they say they have taken action now.

It will be interesting to see what happens next, and how long it takes for something to happen.

By the way, there is something screwy about the date and time of the email. See the screenshot which shows that the displayed sent date and time of the email above is in the future!

Published Thu, Jan 22 2009 22:05 by sandi
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# re: DIRECTI finally agree to act

Thursday, January 22, 2009 11:26 AM by Cd-MaN

Maybe just a timezone difference?

# re: DIRECTI finally agree to act

Thursday, January 22, 2009 4:22 PM by DouglasH

I am going with no.  since it appears that DirectI is based in india. that is GMT +8 if I remember correctly.  

It see it all the time from my inlaws they are GMT +2, and the time sent will be in the future as I am gmt -6.  

when when we send email to them it appears that we sent it 10 hours earlier to them

Douglas

# re: DIRECTI finally agree to act

Friday, January 23, 2009 3:43 AM by MysteryFCM

Having dealt with Directi myself in the past, I can say categorically that yes, they'll deal with these specific domains as they don't like bad press.

However, I can also say categorically that they will ONLY deal with these specific domains. This will NOT push them into checking the other domains they've got going through them, nor will they change their methods to prevent such problems in the future.

Infact, I am 99% sure that the ONLY reason they're willing to deal with these is because of this blog, and the fact they know it is well read.

# re: DIRECTI finally agree to act

Friday, January 23, 2009 4:00 AM by Conrad Longmore

Good news.. but a half-hearted response from Directi. They need to nuke the customer account from orbit.

# re: DIRECTI finally agree to act

Friday, January 23, 2009 5:14 AM by required

Check the headers, they will show the timezones of any servers the e-mail passed through, etc. etc.

# re: DIRECTI finally agree to act

Friday, January 23, 2009 6:07 PM by sandi

Hello all,

For what its worth, I have also started reporting false WHOIS discoveries to ICANN via ICANN's reporting tool - that way ICANN cannot deny that they had an ongoing awareness of DIRECTI's deficiencies when it comes to WHOIS accuracy and problem domains.

ICANN's standard accreditation agreement imposes specific obligations upon DIRECTI regarding the accuracy of WHOIS information for domains they register, and I want ICANN to know about each and every potential breach of that accreditation agreement.

# re: DIRECTI finally agree to act

Sunday, January 25, 2009 10:16 AM by Sparsha

Sounds intresting. Does this mean that Directi will act in the same way for the rest of the domains that goes through them who has false whois details???

@DouglasH India is GTM+5:30

# re: DIRECTI finally agree to act

Monday, January 26, 2009 1:38 AM by sandi

@Sparsha

Here is a question.  Why has DIRECTI allowed these domains to remain live after they were reported, not only for false WHOIS but also for fraud?  This especially applies to the domain posnerpromotion.com, which is redirecting to posneradv.com - posneradv.com even has an alert on display warning that posnerpromotion.com is being used to impersonate posneradv.com, yet DIRECTI fail to take action.

I wrote to DIRECTI asking them to advise what the "stipulated" and "alloted" time was for the criminals to respond to the inaccurate WHOIS report - DIRECTI have failed to respond to that email.

Sandi &c.

# re: DIRECTI finally agree to act

Monday, January 26, 2009 12:14 PM by Sparsha

@Sandi, Yes you made a very good point.

First things first DIRECTI should have suspended these domains when you had reported about the fraud/scam, but what they are doing is allotting a time frame for the criminals to correct their whois details.

More irritating thing is that in the email to Sandi DIRECTI has mentioned that the domain will be suspended if they don’t modify the whois details in the stipulated time and they have totally forgot about the fraud that Sandi has mentioned?