Microsoft Takes Down Many Sub domains Affecting Thousands (No-IP.com)

[xrex64]

I am having issues with this, so just in case you were wondering.

 

"We want to update all our loyal customers about the service outages that many of you are experiencing today. It is not a technical issue. This morning, Microsoft served a federal court order and seized 22 of our most commonly used domains because they claimed that some of the subdomains have been abused by creators of malware. We were very surprised by this. We have a long history of proactively working with other companies when cases of alleged malicious activity have been reported to us. Unfortunately, Microsoft never contacted us or asked us to block any subdomains, even though we have an open line of communication with Microsoft corporate executives.

We have been in contact with Microsoft today. They claim that their intent is to only filter out the known bad hostnames in each seized domain, while continuing to allow the good hostnames to resolve. However, this is not happening. Apparently, the Microsoft infrastructure is not able to handle the billions of queries from our customers. Millions of innocent users are experiencing outages to their services because of Microsoft’s attempt to remediate hostnames associated with a few bad actors.

Had Microsoft contacted us, we could and would have taken immediate action. Microsoft now claims that it just wants to get us to clean up our act, but its draconian actions have affected millions of innocent Internet users.

Vitalwerks and No­-IP have a very strict abuse policy. Our abuse team is constantly working to keep the No-­IP system domains free of spam and malicious activity. We use sophisticated filters and we scan our network daily for signs of malicious activity. Even with such precautions, our free dynamic DNS service does occasionally fall prey to cyber scammers, spammers, and malware distributors. But this heavy-handed action by Microsoft benefits no one. We will do our best to resolve this problem quickly."

 

 

Read More: https://www.noip.com/blog/2014/06/30/ips-formal-statement-microsoft-takedown/

[Lays]

my hostmask for my ts3 has been down for two days now, i cri evrtim.

 

fix ur post pls for dark theme, it hurts my eyeballs :c

[Snickerzz]

my hostmask for my ts3 has been down for two days now, i cri evrtim.

 

fix ur post pls for dark theme, it hurts my eyeballs :c

 

your icon hurts my eyeballs lol 

[Syntaxvgm]

wow MS. Wow. 

[ijKs Snow]

Takes down 4 million legitimate domains to fend off less then 20,000 malware sites. Wooo...hoooo..?

 

I hate malware as much as the next guy, but it's probably better to let users fend off malware from their computers rather then a big company like MS have the power to shut down whatever they please.

[qwertywarrior]

how are they taking them down exactly ?

they arnt an ISP

[fringie]

how are they taking them down exactly ?

they arnt an ISP

Quote me too if someone responds with an answer, I wanna know.

[Snickerzz]

Quote me too if someone responds with an answer, I wanna know.

they probably bought them or already owned most of them and killed them off

[Guest]

Wow... this is total dick move, seams like something the gov would do