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Ok, I am going to say this purely out of memory, so forgive me if I am wrong. The way I understand it that when you search for an open domain name from sites like godaddy, since they do not have every single domain registered out there on the net done through them, they have to send out requests to other registrars to look for them information about the address. Unfortunately, some of are known as Drop Registrars which take all that query information, and if the site does not exist, will register the name. As long as they see someone is interested in the domain, they will try and grab it. Now, here is what I usually do: I use a whois on the domain I want to buy. If it comes back with information, I know it is take, if not, well, I think I got a winner. I then take the week or so I need to think about it, then buy it through a registrar. I am not sure why it would be much different than doing the query through godaddy, etc, but not once have my whois names ever been taken a week later when I go to buy them. I suggest trying Better Whois

Google has registered the domain gbrowser.com.

right, it would not be. Check the record yourself.

From TFA: Chief executive Eric Schmidt has, however, ruled out developing a Google browser to compete with Microsoft's dominant Internet Explorer. Really? What's this? http://betterwhois.com/bwhois.cgi?domain=gbrowser. com&x=0&y=0

damn timer not much there whois

Please don't be rude to people who own real domains by using them, even if they're cute-sounding domains like no.com or nowhere.com, many of which are owned by old internet hackers who got the names when you could still get cool names like foo.com. It's fine to use example.com, which was set up specifically for that purpose. If you use domains that actually don't exist, you'll be hitting the TLD name servers, which really don't need that abuse either.

If you do want to be rude and pick an existing domain, at least pick somebody who's got the resources to handle it. President@whitehouse.gov, billg@microsoft.com, uce@ftc.gov. Alternatively, pick a service like mailinator.com or dodgeit.com that accept email for anybody, put it on a web page where you can retrieve it (with no password, so don't use it for anything real private), and garbage-collect old space after a while.

whois moosq.com reveals that moosq.com belongs to OptInRealBig. I've gotten about 200 spams from them this week (if I'm not double-counting any in my logfiles.) Mostly you'll find it in the From: line of the spams, either as in a short address or else in a long name string that encodes your email address in it. You can ENHANCE YOUR (filter's) PERFORMANCE by including it. My logfile summaries don't show if that's part of the envelope header or not; you may just need to filter on it after the message arrives, but at least you don't need to read the mail yourself.

BetterWhoIs Domain Search

At least this Mike Rowe dude could make an argument that it was his fricking name.

See http://www.betterwhois.com/bwhois.cgi?domain=SPAMH AUS.ORG&x=40&y=15

Where you will find the following.

domain: spamhaus.org status: production origin-c: abuse@spamhaus.org#3 organization: The Spamhaus Project owner: Steve Linford email: abuse@spamhaus.org#3 title: Director address: The Spamhaus Project address: The Phoenix city: Taggs Island state: Private Island postal-code: TW12 2HA country: GB admin-c: security@europe.spamhaus.org#0 tech-c: security@europe.spamhaus.org#0 billing-c: security@europe.spamhaus.org#0 nserver: dns2.ultradesign.net 193.115.218.2 nserver: amethyst.nstc.com nserver: ns1.havenco.net nserver: ns1.simkin.ca nserver: bos.nameserver.net registrar: JORE-1 created: 1999-10-01 07:03:57 UTC NSI modified: 2003-04-23 21:43:51 UTC JORE-1 expires: 2004-10-01 07:03:57 UTC source: joker.com

His message board. Last I checked, the board was moderated and all messages had to be pre-approved by a moderator, but it looks like one fellow has found his way around that. Congrats, Mr. Lignatron.

Don't forget to check out his message board's terms of use. Oddly enough, you're not allowed to mention the fact that the owner of the company sues his customers (and everyone else, for that matter). Any mention of the lawsuit that makes it onto his board is deleted very quickly. That doesn't mean you shouldn't try, though. Even if the message gets stuck in an approval queue and never get posted by a moderator, as seems to be the general case, one of his moderators will still have to take the time to delete it. And I get the feeling that his moderators might not even know about the lawsuit, or else they won't associate with him.

One piece of advice to those attacking his message board: if the goal is to warn his customers about what his company is up to, linking to Petsforum, TheDefenseFund, or this Slashdot story would be MUCH more effective than linking to goatse.cx. Our goal is to bring his behavior into public light, not to gross people out. That's what we have Slashdot for. I know old habits die hard, but this is a chance for us to put our trolling/crapflooding skills to good use, and work for a higher goal.

It's funny how after the lawsuit business started, Bob Novak changed the name of his message board to "The Civilized Pet Forum." Yeah, right.

Then there are the requistite requisite mailto links. What good would this post be without the requisite mailto links? Keep these requisite mailto links in mind for future use. These requisite mailto links make the world go round!

Archived mirror of PetsWarehouse page.

Archived company info.

Archived map to store

Domain registration info

GNU Wget - a website downloading tool. Useful for accessing sites that are Slashdotted, by hitting the site over, and over, and over, and over, and over...

Netcraft Info for Petswarehouse

I don't have any hard conclusions, but I noticed a few things. The info page explicitely says that they are not affiliated. "Is this site affiliated with Mutant Enemy Production or 20th Century Fox? Nope. But if you want to visit an official website, please visit The Official Firefly Website at FOX." At the bottom it also says "This website IS NOT affiliated with the Official Firefly Site, Mutant Enemy, Inc., or 20th Century Fox."

Also, it states that the site took 40 hours to develop. So in 40 hours he developed a site with full chat, community, logins, dynamic news, dynamic episode guide, and a full database of character and episode info and the whole thing is blazingly fast while being slashdotted. I'm impressed.

As for domains, advancemania.com isn't registered, but fireflyfans.net, choi.org and plzfeedme.com all have the same admin contact in Kihei, HI.

The users who are reported frequently by several users over a few days should be checked and then banned, with their IPs logged. If they are found to be populating the network with fake songs, ban their IPs. I would start by banning any IP addresses which are known to belong to the RIAA.

T-a-l-I-b-a-n

vs.

T-a-l-E-b-a-n

T-a-l-I-b-a-n

vs.

T-a-l-E-b-a-n

But this is still available.

An article which appeared yesterday on Securityteam's website shows there is a "bug" in whois entry retrieval system wherin a registered sub domain will have its entry retrieved before the real parent domain's. The example they show is identical to the whois information being shown here today.

If this is the true cause, and it is not corrected soon, whois (sic) to say how far it might go?

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