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Half of All ‘Rogue’ Pharmacies at Two Registrars

Summary: A LegitScript study released in March 2012 found that half of all rogue online pharmacies — sites selling prescription drugs without requiring a prescription — obtained their domain names from just two registrars. Internet.bs, which holds two-tenths of one percent of new domain registrations, sponsored nearly 44 percent of more than 9,000 "not recommended" pharmacies compiled by the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy, while ABSystems (yournamemonkey.com) was also named.

Key Takeaway: Internet.bs president Marco Rinaudo told Krebs his firm had "never ever shut down a pharmacy domain based on a request coming from outside our jurisdiction," and called the report "excellent advertising" — a registrar with 0.2 percent market share hosting 44 percent of the rogue pharmacy sites in the NABP sample. LegitScript's John Horton warned that if ICANN does not enforce its existing registrar code of conduct, governments will "inexorably seek expanded authority and new tools."

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