[16757] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Possible login/password grabbing ploy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Amit Gupta)
Mon May 11 15:50:51 1998
To: Joe Provo - Network Architect <jprovo@ma.ultranet.com>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 11 May 1998 14:13:41 EDT."
<199805111813.OAA12126@elektra.ultra.net>
Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 11:28:11 -0700
From: Amit Gupta <ag@asha.Eng.Sun.COM>
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?
