[83929] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Yahoo! -- A "Phisher-friendly" hosting domain?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fergie (Paul Ferguson))
Wed Aug 31 08:24:32 2005
From: "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 12:21:25 GMT
To: fw@deneb.enyo.de
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
That's good, however, I regret that the issue had to be
aired here because it didn't get attention it deserved
through "proper channels" and elsewhere...
- ferg
-- Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
> But it caught my eye that SOMEBODY at Yahoo! ought to be reviewing
> domain names like "bankofthewestupdate.com"
Registrars should as well, but this is not the way the Internet works.
Sometimes, this is a good thing, sometimes, it's not.
It seems that the A RR has been pulled around 2005-08-30 21:00 UTC, so
this particular issue has already been resolved.
--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
Engineering Architecture for the Internet
fergdawg@netzero.net or fergdawg@sbcglobal.net
ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/