Re: Possible login/password grabbing ploy

[Scott Huddle <huddle () mci net>]

See www.whitehouse.com

-scott

> From owner-nanog () merit edu Mon May 11 15:59 EDT 1998
> To: Joe Provo - Network Architect <jprovo () ma ultranet com>
> cc: nanog () merit edu
> Subject: Re: Possible login/password grabbing ploy 
> Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 11:28:11 -0700
> From: Amit Gupta <ag () asha Eng Sun COM>
> Sender: owner-nanog () merit edu
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>  Or maybe these are also the "adult site operators"?
>
>  At a conference I tried accessing ESPN web site :) by typing in the URL - 
> typed sportszone.espnet.com by mistake (instead of espnet.sportszone.com) - 
> and was surprised by the "Click if you are over 18" message... have heard 
> from others that several other mis-spellings also lead to similar sites.
>
>  Any trademark protection ("webmarks?") available to the folks who run
> these popular sites?
>
>  -amit
>
>  :> I have found that most of the common mis-spellings of our domain name
>  :> have been registered with the Internic by a company named Americaoffline. 
>
>  :Yup.  They've been busy registering dropped-letter variants of many
>  :folks.  All the zones I've looked at are merely wildcard A records, not
>  :purposeful hosts.  I was sorely disappointed that 
>  :http://www.americaoffline.com/ contains no references to malicous nor 
>  :humourous stuff.  Personally, I was hoping for large-scale lampooning.
>
>  :Nothing at the real provider's home base, INSTANET.COM, reveals anything
>  :of interest.  Some kook thinking he can auction off typo domains?