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Comment by ToucanLoucan

I know the enforcement of this would be problematic and require some tinkering and the establishment of probably a whole department of the .gov and a lot of tinkering by well informed people, but it is just wild to me that all entities, not even just registrars, but every entity in every step of the process, from registrars, to ISPs, to cloud service providers, to email providers, to hosting providers, everyone involved in a scammers' operation profits from the scamming, and none of them* are even slightly culpable.

Like how are you selling amaz0n.us and NOT figuring out that someone is up to shady shit? How are you approving thousands of emails with Amazon in the subject line and not realizing you are not Amazon's provider? How are you hosting pages clearly duplicated off legitimate websites that this one IS ABSOLUTELY NOT and just shrugging your shoulders?

I'm not even saying we need continuous monitoring on all these fronts but like, if you get an inordinate number of spam reports on a client, maybe take a freaking look? Maybe take a look at what your hosting servers are publicly serving? Maybe give the mildest of a shit about promoting a healthier Internet, considering you're selling the tools people use to build it?

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