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Re: Possible login/password grabbing ploy
From: Amit Gupta <ag () asha Eng Sun COM>
Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 11:28:11 -0700
Or maybe these are also the "adult site operators"? At a conference I tried accessing ESPN web site :) by typing in the URL - typed sportszone.espnet.com by mistake (instead of espnet.sportszone.com) - and was surprised by the "Click if you are over 18" message... have heard from others that several other mis-spellings also lead to similar sites. Any trademark protection ("webmarks?") available to the folks who run these popular sites? -amit :> I have found that most of the common mis-spellings of our domain name :> have been registered with the Internic by a company named Americaoffline. :Yup. They've been busy registering dropped-letter variants of many :folks. All the zones I've looked at are merely wildcard A records, not :purposeful hosts. I was sorely disappointed that :http://www.americaoffline.com/ contains no references to malicous nor :humourous stuff. Personally, I was hoping for large-scale lampooning. :Nothing at the real provider's home base, INSTANET.COM, reveals anything :of interest. Some kook thinking he can auction off typo domains?
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- Possible login/password grabbing ploy Darryl Baker (May 11)
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- Re: Possible login/password grabbing ploy Lehrer, Neil (May 11)
- Re: Possible login/password grabbing ploy Joe Provo - Network Architect (May 11)
- Re: Possible login/password grabbing ploy Amit Gupta (May 11)
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- Re: Possible login/password grabbing ploy Jay R. Ashworth (May 11)
- Re: Possible login/password grabbing ploy Amit Gupta (May 11)
- Re: Possible login/password grabbing ploy Barry James (May 11)
- Re: Possible login/password grabbing ploy John Butler (May 11)
- RE: Possible login/password grabbing ploy barton (May 11)
- Re: Possible login/password grabbing ploy J.D. Falk (May 11)
- Re: Possible login/password grabbing ploy J. W. Brinkerhoff (May 11)
- Re: Possible login/password grabbing ploy J.D. Falk (May 11)
- Re: Possible login/password grabbing ploy Roy (May 12)
- Re: Possible login/password grabbing ploy Jon Lewis (May 12)
- network renumbering (was Re: Possible login/password grabbing ploy) Paul Mansfield (May 13)