.edu.com domain

["O'Callaghan, Daniel" <Daniel.OCallaghan () SINCLAIR EDU>]

I haven't seen this posted in the group, and it may not be technically a
security issue, but my legal counsel has brought this to me, yours may
do the same.

Vantage Media Co., Inc. has registered the domain 'edu.com'.   
When the URL of a College/University is entered with .edu.com
(sinclair.edu.com), A page is rendered that appears to provide
information about the school (dynamic html using www harvested info?)
and offers a form to 'Request more information from the Admissions
Department of Sinclair Community College.'  I do not know if they
actually forward the information, it appears the primary purpose is to
harvest information for marketing.  The site also renders for
non-existing entities (i.e. anything.edu.com) and generates a page with
links to online schools, some of which have been suspected of being
diploma mills.

Supposedly, if an 'official request' email is sent to
'changes () vantagemedia com' the company will remove the data that
generates the school's content.  I haven't verified this as yet.

Registrant:
   Vantage Media Corporation

   Registered through: GoDaddy.com
   Domain Name: EDU.COM

   Domain servers in listed order:
      PDNS1.ULTRADNS.NET
      PDNS2.ULTRADNS.NET
      PDNS3.ULTRADNS.ORG
      PDNS4.ULTRADNS.ORG
      PDNS5.ULTRADNS.INFO
      PDNS6.ULTRADNS.CO.UK


   For complete domain details go to:
   http://who.godaddy.com/whoischeck.aspx

  
________________________________________________
Daniel V. O'Callaghan, Jr., MBA, CISSP
Chief Information Security Officer
Sinclair Community College
444 West Third Street, 14-324
Dayton, Ohio 45402-1460
937-512-2452
daniel.ocallaghan () sinclair edu