[16760] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Possible login/password grabbing ploy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Huddle)
Mon May 11 16:24:43 1998
Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 16:10:28 -0400
From: Scott Huddle <huddle@mci.net>
To: jprovo@ma.ultranet.com, ag@asha.Eng.Sun.COM
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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
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> 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?
>
>
