NetBeacon goes live for DNS abuse reporting
The DNS Abuse Institute has gone live with its new clearinghouse for DNS abuse reports, NetBeacon.
The service allows anyone to report any domain for four types of abuse — malware, phishing, botnets and spam — and any registry or registrar can sign up to receive the reports in a normalized feed via email or API.
The idea is to make it easier for domain companies to act on reports of abusive customers, as DNSAI director Graeme Bunton told us a few months ago.
NetBeacon is free for both reporters and registrars and is being funded by .org manager Public Interest Registry.
Some of the technology underpinning the service is being provided by CleanDNS.
DNS Abuse Institute names free tool NetBeacon, promises launch soon
NetBeacon has been picked as the name for the DNS Abuse Institute’s forthcoming free abuse-reporting tool.
The tool is expected to launch in early June, after software was donated by CleanDNS accelerated the development cycle, according to Institute director Graeme Bunton.
The system was previously using the working title CART, for Centralized Abuse Reporting Tool, as I blogged in February.
CleanDNS CEO Jeff Bedser is also on the board of Public Interest Registry, which funds DNSAI. Bunton wrote that PIR approved the use of the CleanDNS software under its conflict of interest policy, with Bedser recusing himself.
NetBeacon is expected to provide a way for authenticated abuse reporters to file complaints in a normalized fashion, potentially streamlining the workflow of registrars that subsequently have to deal with them.
Bunton has said that the service will be free at both ends, funded by non-for-profit PIR.
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