[dns-operations] ICANN study on domain front-running.

[Jorge Amodio]

>> <http://www.icann.org/en/compliance/edelman-frontrunning-study-16jun09-en.pdf>
>
> Is using NSLOOKUP to determine if front-running occurred valid?  Domains may
> be registered, and thus blocked from being registered by someone else, and
> still not be in the DNS.

Not really.

"My methodology cannot prove that front‐running is not occurring or
that front‐running has not occurred
in the past. Rather, I have simply failed to find evidence of current
front‐running via the test scenario I
used. It is possible that front‐running occurs based on leads from web
sites I did not test or based on
data sources other than web sites (e.g. NXDOMAIN data from ISPs,
navigation requests obtained from
client‐side software, etc.)."

He should have automated the availability search instead of
relying in nslookup data.

Not easy to find a methodology that will let you know what
some folks are cooking behind their doors.

And statistically 100 weighed against registered domains
and potentially "plausible" names is almost equal to zero.

My .02