[82923] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Tiscali switches to Public-Root?? What do you think?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brandon Butterworth)
Mon Aug 1 03:58:05 2005
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 08:57:32 +0100 (BST)
From: Brandon Butterworth <brandon@rd.bbc.co.uk>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> "www.really-cool.alt. Now fix your systems so I can access it"
>
> The poor guy/gal at the other end of the line will need a really good
> answer.
"Looks like your friend has been duped by some domain hijackers/phishers
exploiting a DNS security hole. We've kept you safe from that perhaps
your friend would like to move to us rather than the insecure ISP"
> Not to mention the answers we need for the market droids...
>
> "Hey, I heard that Tiscali is offering more Internet than us at no
> extra cost, and they make a lot of money on it too. How soon can we
> start doing the same?"
"I hear you can buy .tiscali for $1M so all our users plus
some others will get our site instead of theirs. Unfortunately
the same scam means a bunch of other people have .telenor"
> This puts a lot of pressure on other European ISPs, and eventually
> also North American ISPs (to make this on-topic :-) I hope the rest of
> us can stand together against it.
The rot started when icann hijacked . and started selling
pointless gtlds, it's not surprising others want to do the
same.
brandon
