The APWG has come to occupy many roles in the global contest with electronic crime: Statistician and Analyst, delineating the phishing experience, enumerating phishing's growth and characterizing phishing's evolution to inform stakeholder dialog; Advisor to government and industry, distributing information to inform industrial and public policy; and Federating Nexus where the counter-ecrime stakeholding community assembles to pursue technical and policy development programs of broad counter-ecrime utility. APWG Secretary General Peter Cassidy describes how the APWG is evolving into a clearinhouse for different kinds of ecrime data, ecrime data reporting formats, alerting mechanisms and federating schema (such as the user agreements it developed to allow its trading partners to exchange data without incurring new liabilities) that are helping to fuel counter-ecrime efforts in industry and government. Finally, Mr. Cassidy will report on the APWG's first major policy initiative: the Domain Name System Policy Working Group which is investigation how domain registration policies exploited by phishers and ecriminals could be tuned to frustrate the abuses of DNS registration that are now routine parts of phishing attacks.