Over the last few months Brian Krebs of the Washington Post has been covering stories about domain name resellers and registrars who are in one way or another tied in to nefarious online activities such as spamming, spyware and malware.  A noticeable trend in these articles is that the activity of these scammers is consistently showing them to be using registrar reseller accounts and privacy protection to cover their tracks.  Krebs’ stories are worth reading as they highlight the issues in the domain name system, ICANN and registrars which continue to provide a means for these scammers to operate.  (more…)