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Due to numerous problems with support of NameCoin domains, along with their recent article blasting OpenNIC for supporting the .bit TLD, should we the members of OpenNIC continue to provide peering with the NameCoin group or resolve .bit domain names? | Due to numerous problems with support of NameCoin domains, along with their recent article blasting OpenNIC for supporting the .bit TLD, should we the members of OpenNIC continue to provide peering with the NameCoin group or resolve .bit domain names? | ||
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+ | -- Previous voting proposal from 2018-12-04 -- | ||
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+ | Over the past year .bit domains have started being used as malware hubs due to their anonymous nature. | ||
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+ | As an example I've recently been trying to track today why one of my domains was being blacklisted by malwarebytes, | ||
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+ | If you scroll down near the bottom to the memory forensics, you'll see a list of what I believe are DNS servers that this virus was using. | ||
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+ | We know that spamhaus is also blocking IP addresses based on resolving certain .bit domains, and there is no telling how many others may also be blocking based on this sort of information. | ||
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+ | We've already seen plenty of malware spread across .bit domains, but there is one other possible scenario to consider... What if law enforcement were to take up the same stance as the malware scanners? | ||
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+ | So I want to ask if anyone else feels a need to call a vote on dropping .bit specifically, | ||
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