Re: Can .info domains be stopped?

[Paul Russell <prussell () ND EDU>]

On 6/19/2006 11:02, Chris Bennett wrote:
> I am seeing on google large numbers of domain names that are in the form
> number.randomStuff.info (2606.pdydwh.info) that appear to have content
> from our site, but redirect to a search site of other spam type
> content.  If you do a google search ("lcc.edu" site:.info), I see about
> 486 matching records.  I looked up some other schools in Michigan and
> found the same thing.  The domains appear to be registered in Poland.
> Has anyone dealt with this before?  I can block on-campus access, but it
> does nothing for the prospective student that is looking for a landscape
> or automotive degree while at home.

It appears that many of these sites are being hosted by theplanet.com.
I checked DNS for several of the sites returned by your search, as well
as several of the sites returned by a search for our domain name. Every
one that I checked was hosted on theplanet.com.

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Paul Russell, Senior Systems Administrator
OIT Messaging Services Team
University of Notre Dame
prussell () nd edu