[16748] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Possible login/password grabbing ploy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Provo - Network Architect)
Mon May 11 14:22:15 1998
Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 14:13:41 -0400 (EDT)
From: Joe Provo - Network Architect <jprovo@ma.ultranet.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
> 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?
Joe
