[83945] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Yahoo! -- A "Phisher-friendly" hosting domain?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fergie (Paul Ferguson))
Wed Aug 31 11:27:23 2005
From: "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 15:25:46 GMT
To: alex@nac.net
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Someone is... or trying to, at least, watch and contact the
responsible owners/registrars, but in some cases they aren't
apparently eager to assist.
That's why the ones that are caught end up in various
RBL's...
- ferg
-- Alex Rubenstein <alex@nac.net> wrote:
Shouldn't someone be watching these, though?
root@sodium:~# whois paypal.com
[...]
PAYPAL.COM.SV04.COM
PAYPAL.COM.LIMITSPEED.NET
PAYPAL.COM
While I agree in concept that this is not how the internet runs, and I am
not proposing a domain name police force be instituted, it seems to me
that things like this are easily caught. Not to mention, the purpose of
them is clear.
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote:
>
> 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/
>
--
Alex Rubenstein, AR97, K2AHR, alex@nac.net, latency, Al Reuben
Net Access Corporation, 800-NET-ME-36, http://www.nac.net
