Re: Yahoo! -- A "Phisher-friendly" hosting domain?

[Alex Rubenstein <alex () nac net>]

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/

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