Re: .edu.com domain

[Dave Koontz <dkoontz () MBC EDU>]

Whoa, I just checked our domain on their site and it returns a
completely different school!  Our domain is mbc.edu - Mary Baldwin
College (http://www.mbc.edu), yet when I access http://mbc.edu.com it
returns "Morris Brown College" instead!  I wonder if Morris Brown paid
these guys to get the mbc.edu.com address?  Should I turn this over to
our legal team or contact this questionable company?  Any tips on how I
should proceed would be appreciated!

PS:  I've also noticed a very high number of 'spam' emails to our
students from this organization over the last few weeks.

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Dave Koontz
Associate Director CIS
Mary Baldwin College

Walter Bourne wrote:
> It's possible to get 'off'.  Try
> <http://msu.edu.com/>
>
> Our Admissions and Counsel are doing a cease-and-desist.
>
> ==Walter Bourne
>   Columbia University
>   IT Security & Policy
>
> --On Wednesday, April 05, 2006 15:55 -0500 Graham Toal <gtoal () utpa edu>
> wrote:
>
> : > I do not know if they actually forward
> : > the information, it appears the primary purpose is to harvest
> : > information for marketing.
> :
> : More likely harvest leads to sell back to the Universities.
> : And I would imagine if you don't advertise with them,
> : some rival university will be prominent when someone
> : stumbles on their site looking for you.
> :
> : Here's a good article on their business model:
> :
> : http://www.jayweintraub.com/2005/08/trends_report_a.html
> :
> : G