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Actually, a search on Network Solutions' Web site shows that www.SewKnee.com is unavailable, so you're thwarted. :->

However, you might like these domain names:

sewknee.net is available. sewknee.org is available. sewknee.biz is available. sewknee.info is available. sewknee.us is available. sewknee.cc is available. sewknee.bz is available. sewknee.tv is available.

or these:

sew-knee.com
sewgenus.com
sewknees.com
sewkne e-joint.com
sewkneejoint.com
sew-knee.net
sewge nus.net
sewknees.net
sewknee-joint.net
sewkneej oint.net
sew-knee.org
sewgenus.org
sewknees.org
sewknee-joint.org
sewkneejoint.org
sew-knee.bi z
sewgenus.biz
sewknees.biz
sewknee-joint.biz
sewkneejoint.biz
sew-knee.info
sewgenus.info
se wknees.info
sewknee-joint.info
sewkneejoint.info
sew-knee.us
sewgenus.us
sewknees.us
sewknee-j oint.us
sewkneejoint.us
sew-knee.cc
sewgenus.cc
sewknees.cc
sewknee-joint.cc
sewkneejoint.cc
sew-knee.bz
sewgenus.bz
sewknees.bz
sewknee-joi nt.bz
sewkneejoint.bz
sew-knee.tv
sewgenus.tv
sewknees.tv
sewknee-joint.tv
sewkneejoint.tv

I hope Sony doesn't "sew" (sue) you!

Like many websites (including the whois query page at netsol) have the image
based passwords. Basically, they are images with some text with a lot of wavy lines
and the assumption is that it is hard for programs to do an OCR on them, but easy for
humans to read and understand the text.

Just make the bloggers read and re-enter the text in the slightly-obfuscated images before they
can enter their comments. If they spent atleast a few minutes composing their article
it should not be to hard to type in a few more letters to be allowed to post.

Plugins have made browsers worse, rather than better. Some sites are unusable WITHOUT having Flash.

The browsers have been going downhill since the <img> tag. You might be able to read slashdot from lynx, but just try terraserver or mapquest from a text mode browser!

Don't even get me started on the graphic requirements for registering a user at yahoo or Network Soltions.

an interesting fact about SAIC:
at one point it was contracted by ARPA to create a company to register and manage ARPAnet domain names. that company has been spun off. it is now known as Network Solutions.

From MI state bar directory

WHOIS info:

Bill Wyman the journalist has nothing to do with the billwyman.com domain. It is not a fan site. It is an official site, registered in the UK, presumably to associates of Bill Wyman the musician (Bill Wyman the journalist is in the US). The domain was not mentioned in the Slashdot article or the Atlanta Journal-Constitution article. Repeat after me: It's not about the domain. It's not about the domain. It's not about the domain...

Oh this is just terrible news.. you see, I recently had my name legally changed to "Ford Sucks" so that I could sue Ford for squatting on fordsucks.com.

http://www.netsol.com/cgi-bin/whois/whois?STRING=f ordsucks.com&SearchType=do

-gerbik

I thought the grand-parent post idea that this page was created by Sprint was interesting, but knee-jerky. A quick look at his other pages (stuff he's done with Linux, photo album) and WhoIs suggests he's a real guy with his own site.

However, in general, I kind of disagree with your suggestion that Sprint would be shooting themselves in the foot by promoting Linux. On the contrary, I think it's conceivable that Sprint would try to woo the techie crowd, with particular interest in its early-adopters and bandwidth-lovers.

Even if Sprint concedes a few bandwidth-loving users from some advertising program, they surely make more on the per-minute fees from those users than they would from the ad revenue.

...by a long shot. Check out their service agreement. A whopping 237 paragraphs, 31,999 words, and 202,556 characters.

Registrant:
Permissioned Media Inc.
Apartado 5956
Panama City, El Dorado Zona 6
PA

Registrar: Dotster (http://www.dotster.com)
Domain Name: FRIENDGREETINGS.COM
Created on: 20-JUL-02
Expires on: 20-JUL-03
Last Updated on: 17-OCT-02

Administrative Contact:
Alfaro, Ricardo alfaro@hushmail.com
Permissioned Media Inc.
Apartado 5956
Panama City, El Dorado Zona 6
PA
571-628-5535

Technical Contact:
Alfaro, Ricardo alfaro@hushmail.com
Permissioned Media Inc.
Apartado 5956
Panama City, El Dorado Zona 6
PA
571-628-5535

Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.MYPLANETHOSTING.COM
NS2.MYPLANETHOSTING.COM

from:
http://www.netsol.com/cgi-bin/whois/whois?STRING=f riendgreetings.com&SearchType=do&STRING2.x=23&STRI NG2.y=8

val's info

Hey kids!

Want to engage in real-life Kompooter Forensics just like AP does? Follow these easy steps!

1) Go to Google's cache of the article, since it has now been pulled by Microsoft.

2) Now click on the link at the bottom of the cache page, which reads "Download the submission form in Word format." Whoops! Looks like those kid whizzes at Microsoft didn't actually remove everything!

3) Haven't made the switch to Microsoft yet? Word still new to you? No prob. Go to the 'File' Menu and select Properties while you are viewing the Microsoft Word document. Don't worry! No chmod here!

4) Peruse the tabs to uncover all of AP's 'personal data', including Valerie's zany new website. You go, girl!

i understand what you are saying, however the types of contracts and the systems that banks have with these services aren't exactly like switching to another long distance carrier. you can't just switch with a phone call. the argument was that redundancy was built in and carefully planned, with multiple circuits to eds. who would have known eds's datacenter would be flooded? i guess if we had maps and knew the geography of eds' datacenter and we were weather experts we would have never partnered with them.

i'll bet you that 1 in 5 or so people reading this have bank accounts with a bank that had similar problems that week, and perhaps didn't even know it and blaimed it on the bank.

the same thing could happen if a certain part of virginia were to flood out these little guys. i hate to beat a broken drum, but it's true. you can have multiple redundancies however disaster planning and a real disaster often lead to differing results. in a perfect world all banks would have 5 different redundant connections and 4 of them would lose them money 99.9% of the time. most banks will take their chances because the fed say they have done a reasonable effort.

but in the end it really doesn't matter because i don't work there anymore. i'm a jeans and tshirt guy rather than suit and tie and i'm not one for office politics so i left. =)

WHIOS PetsWarehouse.com

Administrative Contact
Robert Novak-> bob@petswarehouse.com
Pets Warehouse
1550 Sunrise Hwy
Copiague, ny 11726
US
Phone 631-789-5400
Fax 631.789.9340

According to c|net, Amazon's system debuted some time after 2001, but PayPal dates back to 1999, so PayPal clearly has been around longer, and Amazon should not receive this patent.

here's their address from here 3150 almaden Expressway #234 San Jose CA,95118 US

At register.com, they let you setup billing address info for your account that they use to contact you, privately. It's SEPARATE from the information actually showing in the public WHOIS database.

View the WHOIS record for my domain, winzig.com.

Truly, this is not my contact information:

123 No Spam Ave.
No Spam, CA 90210 US
Phone: 800-555-1212
Email: spam-me-not@winzig.com

However, if I was a spammer, or breaking the law on my website, the feds could still contact me if they are able to subpoena register.com for my billing info. And register.com can still send me reminders for domain renewals, which is all I care about anyway.

Intel's lawyers could not be reached for comment.

However, within minutes the domain name "million-quantum.com" was registered by some greedy slashdotter hoping to cash in.

set:/ # host 213.77.115.17
17.115.77.213.IN-ADDR.ARPA domain name pointer wenus.dtcomsa.com

A simple WHOIS shows that it's registered to some Belgian dude. Why should we think anything on there is even credible (I mean did you even read it???)

They don't have a page up, but here is the whois

Why does WHOIS say that .gi is an invalid tld?

At the same time, it says that .tv is a valid tld.

The .tv domian is for the Republic of Tuvalu, and .gi is for Gibraltar. Why should WHOIS treat these domains differently?

I'll bet you a donut that they did since the site the article is posted on xwss.org is owned by them.

Try a whois on both xwss.org and westbridgetech.com You'll notice they are owned by the same people.

I'll bet you a donut that they did since the site the article is posted on xwss.org is owned by them.

Try a whois on both xwss.org and westbridgetech.com You'll notice they are owned by the same people.

This smells of advertising for a new site?

A whois search also reveals that xwss.org and westbridgetech.com belong to the same people.

And to top it all off Westbridge sells an XML message server. Just what you need to implement all the good stuff talked about in the article.

This smells of advertising for a new site?

A whois search also reveals that xwss.org and westbridgetech.com belong to the same people.

And to top it all off Westbridge sells an XML message server. Just what you need to implement all the good stuff talked about in the article.

The root servers delegate the .us zone to the Neustar servers, which are:

• a.gtld.biz - 209.173.53.162
• b.gtld.biz - 209.173.57.162
• c.gtld.biz - 209.173.60.65

Recursive lookup starts a one of the servers in root-servers.net, and goes to the above, then finally to your registered DNS servers (yours, or you ISP's, or the registrar's).

Now there are still some problems:

• There are only 3 servers handling .us whereas there are 13 for .com, etc.
• All 3 servers are in the same netblock, and this suggests maybe even the same physical location.
• The TTL (time to live) is set to only 15 minutes at the 3 servers (compared to 2 days at the .com servers ... a ratio of 1:192).
• If you don't use a .us domain as your DNS servers, then there's an extra lookup because the A-records with the server IPs don't get added in the response (this is how DNS is supposed to work).

I registered 2 domains in .us, one via register.com and the other via Verisign/Netsol. I, too, had trouble getting my DNS servers set up via register.com. They finally said they could do it manually, but then they goofed that up by entering them wrong after giving me an excuse that some of them had no IPs (they did ... but they weren't the ones I wanted used, though). OTOH, with Verisign, I was able to change my DNS servers just fine, and it went through in 6 hours (while everyone says it can take 24-72 hours). My only beef with Verisign is the limit of 4 DNS servers. I've had another person also tell me eNom is working OK for them.

Not Register.com, Verisign/NetSol. The domains were parked at InterLand.

Granted, I knew all that before I read this article, but hey, the securityfocus article that was linked had all this information, would have been 4 seconds of Journalistic Research.

I'm too ornery in the morning. In any case, really big mass-defacement, really easily accomplished.

Sorry, but it's owned by CNet: com.com whois

I wonder if they sent one to AOL...
Domain Name: AOL.COM
Registrant:America Online, Inc.
22000 AOL Way
Dulles, VA 20166
Created on..............: Nov 22, 1999
Expires on..............: Nov 22, 2001

Consider using the myprivacy.ca whois-harvester-buster. Create a free @myprivacy.ca e-mail address, and then use it in your whois information. If you've registered your domain from (and admittedly small set) of participating ICANN registrars any mail from the registrar will be forwarded to you automatically, but if someone else sends e-mail to the myprivacy.ca e-mail address they have to answer a simple confirmation e-mail before their e-mail will be forwarded to you.

Of course, this doesn't help if the registrar decides to send you spam...

I noticed some full page ads in a UK magazine for a product that claimed to let you install multiple copies of OS's and switch between them instantly and lots of other dodgy claims like being able to run Windows from RAM.

The screenshots looked like faked shots of explorer. The web site can be found here.

Their 'Company Profile' page mentions a multimillion pound company called Launchasset Ltd.

A quick search through Google has led me to information on junk faxes and an Office of Fair Trading ruling against a Yummy Yum Yum diet.

A quick whois gives a name, Gordon Ritchie, and a quick look through Google Groups for that name and address doesn't inspire much more hope.

Hoax? Most likely.

The internet is a powerful tool, use it to your advantage.

The link is wrong in the post...but somehow it still works??

Indeed. http://www.com.com" is owned by CNET. A pretty dumb way to name your site, but ... whatever floats your boat. :)

It doesn't look like it's used directly though, I get 'connection refused'.

Interesting tidbit. The UCA claims credit for hacking your site. Now look at one of the e-mail addresses that Sherman Austin gives for himself here.

Note to self: When hacking sites, try to remember not to include my e-mail address on the hacked page I leave behind.

The Nevada Secretary of State Corporation Search gives us.

• President:MAURICE O'BANNON
• 
  Address: PO BOX 27103
  LAS VEGAS NV 89126

• vx2 (VX52-DOM)
• 
  po box 27103
  Las Vegas, NV 89126
  US

  Domain Name: VX2.CC

  212 255 1008 fax: 123 123 1234

"Maurice O'Bannon" is mentioned in several legal documents related to the J.K. Publications scam. In that case, O'Bannon was on paper an officer or director of several dummy Nevada corporations which were fronting for a multimillion dollar phony credit card billing scam operated by Kenneth Taves of Malibu, CA. (Mr. Taves is currently Inmate #12289-112 at the Los Angeles Metropolitan Detention Center). O'Bannon, though, appears to be some guy in Nevada who just signed whatever was put in front of him. In the judge's words [large .PDF] "Maurice O'Bannon had an informal agreement with Nevada Corporate Headquarters, Inc., an incorporator, to act as a nominee for their client-corporations and sign whatever documents Nevada Corp wanted him to sign." The judge was bothered by O'Bannon's actions, but the FTC didn't have enough evidence that he had control of or profited from the scam to put him away.

The J.K. publications scam involved obtaining a database of 3.6 million valid credit card numbers and charging them small amounts each, supposedly for use of a porno site. The mess involved offshore bank accounts in the Cayman Islands and Vanatu, but much of the money has been recovered. Company names involved were JK Publications, Inc., MJD Service Corp., Netfill, N-Bill, Webtel, Billing On Line, Fun On Line, and Discreet Bill.

We're not at the bottom of this yet, but it looks very suspicious.

I hate to disagree but I cannot see any reason for a "pre-registration" process. NSI^H^H^HNetSol^H^H^H^H^H^HVerisign should simply be forced to release domain names on a known schedule (i.e. 0/5 days after expiration, preferably at the original time of registration). Then everyone can jump in and try to buy it first :-) As long as their is no systemic preference for who will get any domain (like people who pay the extra to go through the worst registrar should not be able to purchase first) this system would be fine.

As for having a standard process across all TLDs, you are living in a wildly optimistic dreamland, but that's ok with me, I'd rather let some TLDs make their own bizarre rules than have one set of rules created by one global devil.

If this were equipped with 802.11a (not b) networking, could a traffic jam of these things become an ad-hoc Beowulf cluster?

Also, did anyone else notice that the domain's admin contact is Bran Ferren of Disney Imagineering? This may be more imagination than engineering...

Whois

Cue frantic whois entry changes of course.

Streetmap

Curmudgeon

How about this.

Whois on networksolutions.com

Registrant:
Chris Welsh
2792 W. Jasper Dr.
Chandler, Az 85224
US

Registrar: Dotster (http://www.dotster.com)
Domain Name: ANARCHSFORLIFE.ORG
Created on: 06-SEP-00
Expires on: 06-SEP-02
Last Updated on: 26-OCT-00

Administrative Contact:
Welsh, Chris koat@disinfo.net
2792 W. Jasper Dr
Chandler, Az 85224
US
602-254-6398

Technical Contact:
Welsh, Chris koat@disinfo.net
2792 W. Jasper Dr
Chandler, Az 85224
US
602-254-6398

Domain servers in listed order:
NS3.TOMORROW2.NET
NS4.TOMORROW2.NET
NS2.TOMORROW2.NET
NS1.TOMORROW2.NET

You post the question "Where's the accountability?" — anonymously?

Did you see the Sousveillance video? He's not doing exposés of concealed cameras in dressing rooms; he's strolling through department stores, asking employees idiotic questions about the "mysterious dark domes" in the ceiling as if they were part some massive coverup, and none of the poor idiots (non-University of Toronto CE students) around him were totally unaware that they were being watched in a department store. It inspires no social change (except perhaps more stores banning video cameras), and has no effect outside of feeding his overinflated ego. This is nothing more than stupid camera tricks posing as citizen activism.

While we're on the subject, let's throw it out to the group—how would you like this guy to walk into your employer's business and start following you around with a camcorder? "Why do I have to have a password to use one of these computers? What are those weird white boxes with red lights in the corners of the ceiling? Why is the server room locked? Why did you call the police?" Seems pretty juvenile when you think about it.

...on TreoPlayer.com reveals some interesting facts:

Check out the source code. Lovely ol' Frontpage inserted an author meta tag with the name "Jerzy Bilyk".

Here is where it gets interesting. Run a Google search on "Jerzy Bilyk", and you come up with this page (Google cache used because the original doesn't exist anymore). It lists a "Bilyk, Jerzy" as having a supended license (among other crimes.) The police department is in Plano, IL.

Now here's the really interesting part: a WHOIS on treoplayer.com shows a John Bastion as owning the domain. His address? Sugar Grove, IL: about 12 miles from Plano. (Mapquest proves it).

I think, from this, we can safely declare one golden rule: if you're going to do a hoax and submit it to Slashdot, don't freakin' use Frontpage! :D

P.S. I'm available as a consultant if anyone from Slashdot would like to hire an editor/story checker. ;)

The treoplayer.com website is registered to an individual and he is the only contact. Its some dude with an earthlink email address. Check it out. There is no mention of the discontinuation at the manufacturer or distributors websites. Plus, the layout of the treoplayer.com site is amateurish at best. Me thinks Slashdot has been had.

We had four domains registered through Verisign/NSI... and we had an issue with one because our 'admin' didn't keep the domain records up to date. Most of the work was done via email to hostmaster@networksolutions.com (you need to send a little form back to them after completing the form on the website). Because the details were out of date, one of the emails was not right, so we ended up having to use Fax to authenticate it... it took 8 working days to process it. I contacted the support site, and they're putting the delays down to the fact they're having to play catch-up because of the buy out by Verisign. When they finally did get it all transferred over, they did it midnight friday... so all four of our domains were down over the weekend, and I didn't get SWBell to sort out the DNS until later Monday... I had a very upset boss ;)

Verify the information on your record. Scan your id to prove you are the registrant and fax it to them. Then call them them. I've run into this before when e-mail address changed. It's a pain, you'll be on the phone on hold for about an hour while waiting for them to get to you, but it gets it done. You can also use their chat

If you fail logging in 5 times it locks you out, and you have to close your browser (I assume to remove the cookie) and then restart your browser and try again.

Verify the information on your record. Scan your id to prove you are the registrant and fax it to them. Then call them them. I've run into this before when e-mail address changed. It's a pain, you'll be on the phone on hold for about an hour while waiting for them to get to you, but it gets it done. You can also use their chat

If you fail logging in 5 times it locks you out, and you have to close your browser (I assume to remove the cookie) and then restart your browser and try again.

Verify the information on your record. Scan your id to prove you are the registrant and fax it to them. Then call them them. I've run into this before when e-mail address changed. It's a pain, you'll be on the phone on hold for about an hour while waiting for them to get to you, but it gets it done. You can also use their chat

If you fail logging in 5 times it locks you out, and you have to close your browser (I assume to remove the cookie) and then restart your browser and try again.

Go here for the WHOIS lookup. Have fun trying to get anything more than a domain name out of this guy in Armenia.

Perhaps VA has followed in many of the former "dot bomb" naming conventions where one thinks up a good list of names, then determines which are available. As most are probably taken, a domain name, and thus company name, are easily chosen.

So, they found vasoftware.com" was available and went for it. Looks like the record was updated today, too.

So what else might they switch to in the future? Domain squatters are already on the hunt for their next possible name...

Netscape is owned by AOL, Most Mozilla staff are Netscape staff. Aol owns the staff thus they own Mozilla.

You are correct, and AOL also calls the shots. They have not been particularly interventionist so far, it appears, but some public information has come to light on (for instance) milestone dates being changed to accomodate AOL demands, and the head of Mozilla being removed by AOL.

Take a look at the WHOIS entry for Mozilla.org and compare it with the contact address for Netscape. Both are in Mountain View, hmm, but that could mean anything. Now look at the map to Mozilla.org and the map to Netscape. Hmm. Mozilla.org seems to be based in a Netscape building.

Independent? I don't think so.

Tim