DNS Abuse Small Team 2024-2025

The topic of DNS Abuse was revisited during ICANN82 as a potential area for future policy work. It had previously been addressed by a DNS Abuse Small Team, which had produced a set of four recommendations and identified a gap in enforcement mechanisms under current contracts. Contract amendments between ICANN and contracted parties were negotiated to clarify mitigation obligations. Now that those amendments have taken effect and related data from ICANN Compliance is available, the Council proposed to revisit the issue.

Start date: 28 March 2025

End date:

Mailing list archives: https://lists.icann.org/hyperkitty/list/gnso-dnsabuse-smallteam@icann.org/

Membership

Members
Bruna Martins
Desiree Miloshevic
Farzaneh Badii
Greg DiBiase
Hong-Fu (Tom) Meng
Jennifer Chung
Justine Chew
Lawrence Olawale-Roberts
Paul McGrady
Peter Akinremi
Sam Demetriou
Sebastien Ducos
Susan Payne
Thomas Rickert
Vivek Goyal

ICANN org support: Feodora Hamza, John Emery, Steve Chan

Documents

Documents

Small Team Assignment form: https://gnso.icann.org/sites/default/files/policy/2025/draft/assignment-form-gnso-council-small-team-dns-abuse-04apr25-en.pdf

Small Team Assignment Form-updated 29 April 2025: https://gnso.icann.org/sites/default/files/policy/2025/draft/assignment-form-gnso-council-small-team-dns-abuse-29apr25-en.pdf

2025 Meetings

Date	Time	Recordings	Agenda
Thursday, 15 May 2025	14:00 UTC	Audio Recording Zoom Recording Attendance	Welcome Overview of Assignment Discussion Small Team Lead Discussion Meeting Cadence Discussion Draft Plan for Delivering Assignment AOB Slides
Thursday, 22 May 2025	14:10 UTC	Audio Recording Zoom Recording Attendance	Welcome Discussion on Contract Amendments Discussion on INFERMAL Study Discussion on timeline AOB Slides
Thursday, 29 May 2025	14:10 UTC	Audio Recording Zoom Recording Attendance Apologies: Paul McGrady	Welcome (2min) Discuss identified issues/gaps based on last discussion (25min) Discuss other sources (10min) DNS Abuse Small Team Recommendations 2022 NetBeacon White Paper Discuss identified issues/gaps and next steps (20min) AOB (3min) For the discussion please find the preliminary list of “identified gaps” based on the review of the discussed reports and sources for your consideration here. [docs.google.com]
Thursday, 19 June 2025	14:10 UTC	Audio Recording Zoom Recording Attendance Apologies:
Thursday, 26 June 2025	14:10 UTC	Audio Recording Zoom Recording Attendance Apologies:
Thursday, 03 July 2025	14:10 UTC	Audio Recording Zoom Recording Attendance Apologies:
Thursday, 10 July 2025	14:10 UTC	Audio Recording Zoom Recording Attendance Apologies:
Thursday, 17 July 2025	14:10 UTC	Audio Recording Zoom Recording Attendance Apologies:
Thursday, 24 July 2025	14:10 UTC	Audio Recording Zoom Recording Attendance Apologies:
Thursday, 31 July 2025	14:10 UTC	Audio Recording Zoom Recording Attendance Apologies:

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DNS Abuse Small Team 2024-2025

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