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Re: Possible login/password grabbing ploy
From: Scott Huddle <huddle () mci net>
Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 16:10:28 -0400
See www.whitehouse.com -scott
From owner-nanog () merit edu Mon May 11 15:59 EDT 1998 To: Joe Provo - Network Architect <jprovo () ma ultranet com> cc: nanog () merit edu Subject: Re: Possible login/password grabbing ploy Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 11:28:11 -0700 From: Amit Gupta <ag () asha Eng Sun COM> Sender: owner-nanog () merit edu Content-Type> : > text> Content-Length: 1100 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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- Re: Possible login/password grabbing ploy Mark Borchers (May 12)
- Re: Possible login/password grabbing ploy Andy Rabagliati (May 12)
- Re: Possible login/password grabbing ploy Keith Dawson (May 12)