An example of DNS forensics

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>]

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/26/technology/26google.html?pagewanted=print
 
Google Found to Be Testing Classified Ads 

By JOHN MARKOFF 

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 25 - An online classified service being tested by Google
set off intense speculation on Tuesday after a Web site for the service was
accidentally made public and discovered by a computer programmer on Monday.

The service, which was named Google Base and was for a time accessible at
base.google.com, described itself as "Google's database into which you can
add all types of content."

...

The Google Base page was discovered on Monday by Tony Ruscoe, a British
programmer, who said he had created an automatic program to search for
subdomains accessible at the Google.com Web site. The company, based in
Mountain View, Calif., took down the test site and replaced the page with a
"403" forbidden-access response.

...
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