<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">hi all,<br><br>Sorry for late notice but wee've all been busy. I wanted for security reasons, to just reiterate something that is talked about in the below link on the ICANN website: the conflicker worm.<br>The Conficker worm uses DNS to receive instructions, to spread and launch DDoS attacks. It contains an algorithm which randomly generates 250 domains names for the week. For example the list used during the week 17-31 jan from <a href="http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/downadup_domain_blocklist_17_31.txt">http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/downadup_domain_blocklist_17_31.txt </a>shows domains under gtld and cctld. This keep changing and the number of domains generated keeps increasing with every new version of conflicker. So please be careful on registrations of domains names under your CCTLDs.<br><br>ICANN announcement is at : <a href="http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-2-12feb09-en.htm">http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-2-12feb09-en.htm </a>mentioned that some companies has joined the effort to help contains the worn propagation and impact.<div><br>Best to all,<br></div><div><br></div><div>--alain</div></body></html>