Re: AW: strange .ch scan by 195.141.86.145

["Rainer Duffner" <rainer () ultra-secure de>]

Hi, 

I have no domains in .ch, but the mystery is solved: 

http://www.pctip.ch/topthema/tt/21206.asp
(This is German) 

There are (German) discussions on
http://www.symlink.ch/articles/02/05/29/2233228.shtml 

and, obviously, on the heise-newsticker forum: 

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/foren/go.shtml?list=1&forum_id=29856 

In short, Microsoft was using its priviledged access to the Swiss NIC
domains-database to produce a statistic of webserver operating-systems
under the cc-tlds .ch and .li. 

Their access to this database however, has been terminated, a spokesperson 
claiming "violation of AUP" by MSFT.... 

I guess, they clicked through the EULAs as fast as the average person ;-) 


cheers,
Rainer
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