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

Alex Rubenstein alex at nac.net
Wed Aug 31 15:17:03 UTC 2005



Shouldn't someone be watching these, though?

root at 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 at 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 at netzero.net or fergdawg at sbcglobal.net
> ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
>

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