[IP] Re: Govt refuses to disclose .gov domain names

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: "Yiorgos [George] Adamopoulos" <yiorgos@tee.gr>
Date: March 3, 2009 4:39:17 AM EST
To: David Farber <dave@farber.net>
Cc: ip <ip@v2.listbox.com>
Subject: Re: [IP] Govt refuses to disclose .gov domain names

On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, David Farber wrote:
> The General Services Administration has made the rather surprising  
> claim that it can’t reveal the list of .gov domains because doing so  
> would represent a security risk:
>
> http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=215600330

Interestingly engough I made a similar request to the .GR Hostmaster  
for a list of .GR domain names, back in 2007.  The response that I got  
was that it was prohibited by their security policy.

What I can only speculate is, that given a list of domains, one can  
easily create fairly accurate spam lists and spam all of them.   
Depending the organization this may or may not seem like a reasonable  
precaution.

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