Michael Peel wrote: > I'd like to see more information here. What activities are MarkMonitor > involved in with the 'anti-piracy fight'? Are they involved in filtering all > peer-to-peer traffic, or just the traffic that contravenes copyright law? As a > domain name supplier, what is their relation to ISPs, and how do they > practically provide this filtering? What evidence do they supply to copyright > holders - I assume that this evidence is related to who has registered which > domain, since (as domain name providers) they shouldn't be in a position to > provide any other (non-public) information here? How do they monitor titles?
Did you do any quick research before asking these questions? > I'm asking this out of genuine interest. My understanding of domain name > providers in general is that they provide a service that simply says "this > domain name points to the server at this IP address", rather than them having > any role in filtering, providing evidence, or monitoring. I'm rather > surprised to hear that their activities go beyond this. MarkMonitor isn't a typical domain registrar. It's a component of what they do, but they're quite explicitly a "brand protection service." A very large part of Web brands just happens to be their domain names. I did some quick research. It looks like MarkMonitor has been involved with a lot of major companies, including Facebook (hi Domas!), Google, and now the Wikimedia Foundation (<https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:MarkMonitor>). There were rumors that MarkMonitor was also involved in the acquisition of mobileme.com and me.com for Apple. http://arst.ch/nu2 was an interesting take on one of the company's reports. I guess they pissed off RapidShare pretty badly at some point. > I'm all in favour of moving the Wikimedia domain names from GoDaddy to > MarkMonitor (and, tbh, I'm rather puzzled by why the WMF decided to use > GoDaddy in the first place), I'm just rather puzzled by your statements here. Byproduct of history, I imagine. It used to be that it didn't really matter where you registered a domain, as long as they were competent enough to keep it registered and handle your whois data. In most cases and for most people, this is still true. I vaguely recall some major site being interrupted within the past year because their domain registration password (on a site like GoDaddy or HostGator or wherever) was incredibly weak. You'd be surprised what kinds of domains are registered where. :-) MZMcBride _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
