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Roland Piquepaille and Slashdot: Is there a connection?

I think most of you are aware of the controversy surrounding regular Slashdot article submitter Roland Piquepaille. For those of you who don't know, please allow me to bring forth all the facts. Roland Piquepaille has an online journal (I refuse to use the word "blog") located at http://www.primidi.com/. It is titled "Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends". It consists almost entirely of content, both text and pictures, taken from reputable news websites and online technical journals. He does give credit to the other websites, but it wasn't always so. Only after many complaints were raised by the Slashdot readership did he start giving credit where credit was due. However, this is not what the controversy is about.

Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends serves online advertisements through a service called Blogads, located at www.blogads.com. Blogads is not your traditional online advertiser; rather than base payments on click-throughs, Blogads pays a flat fee based on the level of traffic your online journal generates. This way Blogads can guarantee that an advertisement on a particular online journal will reach a particular number of users. So advertisements on high traffic online journals are appropriately more expensive to buy, but the advertisement is guaranteed to be seen by a large amount of people. This, in turn, encourages people like Roland Piquepaille to try their best to increase traffic to their journals in order to increase the going rates for advertisements on their web pages. But advertisers do have some flexibility. Blogads serves two classes of advertisements. The premium ad space that is seen at the top of the web page by all viewers is reserved for "Special Advertisers"; it holds only one advertisement. The secondary ad space is located near the bottom half of the page, so that the user must scroll down the window to see it. This space can contain up to four advertisements and is reserved for regular advertisers, or just "Advertisers". Visit Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends (http://www.primidi.com/) to see it for yourself.

Before we talk about money, let's talk about the service that Roland Piquepaille provides in his journal. He goes out and looks for interesting articles about new and emerging technologies. He provides a very brief overview of the articles, then copies a few choice paragraphs and the occasional picture from each article and puts them up on his web page. Finally, he adds a minimal amount of original content between the copied-and-pasted text in an effort to make the journal entry coherent and appear to add value to the original articles. Nothing more, nothing less.

Now let's talk about money. Visit http://www.blogads.com/order_html?adstrip_category =tech&politics= to check the following facts for yourself. As of today, December XX 2004, the going rate for the premium advertisement space on Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends is $375 for one month. One of the four standard advertisements costs $150 for one month. So, the maximum advertising space brings in $375 x 1 + $150 x 4 = $975 for one month. Obviously not all $975 will go directly to Roland Piquepaille, as Blogads gets a portion of that as a service fee, but he will receive the majority of it. According to the FAQ, Blogads takes 20%. So Roland Piquepaille gets 80% of $975, a maximum of $780 each month. www.primidi.com is hosted by clara.net (look it up at http://www.networksolutions.com/en_US/whois/index. jhtml). Browsing clara.net's hosting solutions, the most expensive hosting service is their Clarahost Advanced (http://www.uk.clara.net/clarahost/advanced.php) priced at £69.99 GBP. This is

Roland Piquepaille and Slashdot: Is there a connection?

I think most of you are aware of the controversy surrounding regular Slashdot article submitter Roland Piquepaille. For those of you who don't know, please allow me to bring forth all the facts. Roland Piquepaille has an online journal (I refuse to use the word "blog") located at http://www.primidi.com/. It is titled "Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends". It consists almost entirely of content, both text and pictures, taken from reputable news websites and online technical journals. He does give credit to the other websites, but it wasn't always so. Only after many complaints were raised by the Slashdot readership did he start giving credit where credit was due. However, this is not what the controversy is about.

Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends serves online advertisements through a service called Blogads, located at www.blogads.com. Blogads is not your traditional online advertiser; rather than base payments on click-throughs, Blogads pays a flat fee based on the level of traffic your online journal generates. This way Blogads can guarantee that an advertisement on a particular online journal will reach a particular number of users. So advertisements on high traffic online journals are appropriately more expensive to buy, but the advertisement is guaranteed to be seen by a large amount of people. This, in turn, encourages people like Roland Piquepaille to try their best to increase traffic to their journals in order to increase the going rates for advertisements on their web pages. But advertisers do have some flexibility. Blogads serves two classes of advertisements. The premium ad space that is seen at the top of the web page by all viewers is reserved for "Special Advertisers"; it holds only one advertisement. The secondary ad space is located near the bottom half of the page, so that the user must scroll down the window to see it. This space can contain up to four advertisements and is reserved for regular advertisers, or just "Advertisers". Visit Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends (http://www.primidi.com/) to see it for yourself.

Before we talk about money, let's talk about the service that Roland Piquepaille provides in his journal. He goes out and looks for interesting articles about new and emerging technologies. He provides a very brief overview of the articles, then copies a few choice paragraphs and the occasional picture from each article and puts them up on his web page. Finally, he adds a minimal amount of original content between the copied-and-pasted text in an effort to make the journal entry coherent and appear to add value to the original articles. Nothing more, nothing less.

Now let's talk about money. Visit http://www.blogads.com/order_html?adstrip_category =tech&politics= to check the following facts for yourself. As of today, December XX 2004, the going rate for the premium advertisement space on Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends is $375 for one month. One of the four standard advertisements costs $150 for one month. So, the maximum advertising space brings in $375 x 1 + $150 x 4 = $975 for one month. Obviously not all $975 will go directly to Roland Piquepaille, as Blogads gets a portion of that as a service fee, but he will receive the majority of it. According to the FAQ, Blogads takes 20%. So Roland Piquepaille gets 80% of $975, a maximum of $780 each month. www.primidi.com is hosted by clara.net (look it up at http://www.networksolutions.com/en_US/whois/index. jhtml). Browsing clara.net's hosting solutions, the most expensive hosting service is their Clarahost Advanced (http://www.uk.clara.net/clarahost/advanced.php) priced at £69.99 GBP. This is

Roland Piquepaille and Slashdot: Is there a connection?

I think most of you are aware of the controversy surrounding regular Slashdot article submitter Roland Piquepaille. For those of you who don't know, please allow me to bring forth all the facts. Roland Piquepaille has an online journal (I refuse to use the word "blog") located at www.primidi.com [primidi.com] [primidi.com] . It is titled "Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends". It consists almost entirely of content, both text and pictures, taken from reputable news websites and online technical journals. He does give credit to the other websites, but it wasn't always so. Only after many complaints were raised by the Slashdot readership did he start giving credit where credit was due. However, this is not what the controversy is about.

Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends serves online advertisements through a service called Blogads, located at www.blogads.com [blogads.com] [blogads.com]. Blogads is not your traditional online advertiser; rather than base payments on click-throughs, Blogads pays a flat fee based on the level of traffic your online journal generates. This way Blogads can guarantee that an advertisement on a particular online journal will reach a particular number of users. So advertisements on high traffic online journals are appropriately more expensive to buy, but the advertisement is guaranteed to be seen by a large amount of people. This, in turn, encourages people like Roland Piquepaille to try their best to increase traffic to their journals in order to increase the going rates for advertisements on their web pages. But advertisers do have some flexibility. Blogads serves two classes of advertisements. The premium ad space that is seen at the top of the web page by all viewers is reserved for "Special Advertisers"; it holds only one advertisement. The secondary ad space is located near the bottom half of the page, so that the user must scroll down the window to see it. This space can contain up to four advertisements and is reserved for regular advertisers, or just "Advertisers". Visit Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends (www.primidi.com [primidi.com] [primidi.com]) to see it for yourself.

Before we talk about money, let's talk about the service that Roland Piquepaille provides in his journal. He goes out and looks for interesting articles about new and emerging technologies. He provides a very brief overview of the articles, then copies a few choice paragraphs and the occasional picture from each article and puts them up on his web page. Finally, he adds a minimal amount of original content between the copied-and-pasted text in an effort to make the journal entry coherent and appear to add value to the original articles. Nothing more, nothing less.

Now let's talk about money.

Visit http://www.blogads.com/order_html?adstrip_category =tech&politics= [blogads.com] [blogads.com] to check the following facts for yourself. As of today, December XX 2004, the going rate for the premium advertisement space on Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends is $375 for one month. One of the four standard advertisements costs $150 for one month. So, the maximum advertising space brings in $375 x 1 + $150 x 4 = $975 for one month. Obviously not all $975 will go directly to Roland Piquepaille, as Blogads gets a portion of that as a service fee, but he will receive the majority of it. According to the FAQ [blogads.com] [blogads.com], Blogads takes 20%. So Roland Piquepaille gets 80% of $975, a maximum of $780 each month. www.primidi.com is hosted by clara.net (look it up at http://www.networksolutions.com/en_US/whois/index [networksolutions.com] [networks

Roland Piquepaille and Slashdot: Is there a connection?

I think most of you are aware of the controversy surrounding regular Slashdot article submitter Roland Piquepaille. For those of you who don't know, please allow me to bring forth all the facts. Roland Piquepaille has an online journal (I refuse to use the word "blog") located at www.primidi.com [primidi.com] . It is titled "Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends". It consists almost entirely of content, both text and pictures, taken from reputable news websites and online technical journals. He does give credit to the other websites, but it wasn't always so. Only after many complaints were raised by the Slashdot readership did he start giving credit where credit was due. However, this is not what the controversy is about.

Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends serves online advertisements through a service called Blogads, located at www.blogads.com [blogads.com]. Blogads is not your traditional online advertiser; rather than base payments on click-throughs, Blogads pays a flat fee based on the level of traffic your online journal generates. This way Blogads can guarantee that an advertisement on a particular online journal will reach a particular number of users. So advertisements on high traffic online journals are appropriately more expensive to buy, but the advertisement is guaranteed to be seen by a large amount of people. This, in turn, encourages people like Roland Piquepaille to try their best to increase traffic to their journals in order to increase the going rates for advertisements on their web pages. But advertisers do have some flexibility. Blogads serves two classes of advertisements. The premium ad space that is seen at the top of the web page by all viewers is reserved for "Special Advertisers"; it holds only one advertisement. The secondary ad space is located near the bottom half of the page, so that the user must scroll down the window to see it. This space can contain up to four advertisements and is reserved for regular advertisers, or just "Advertisers". Visit Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends (www.primidi.com [primidi.com]) to see it for yourself.

Before we talk about money, let's talk about the service that Roland Piquepaille provides in his journal. He goes out and looks for interesting articles about new and emerging technologies. He provides a very brief overview of the articles, then copies a few choice paragraphs and the occasional picture from each article and puts them up on his web page. Finally, he adds a minimal amount of original content between the copied-and-pasted text in an effort to make the journal entry coherent and appear to add value to the original articles. Nothing more, nothing less.

Now let's talk about money.

Visit http://www.blogads.com/order_html?adstrip_category =tech&politics= [blogads.com] to check the following facts for yourself. As of today, December XX 2004, the going rate for the premium advertisement space on Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends is $375 for one month. One of the four standard advertisements costs $150 for one month. So, the maximum advertising space brings in $375 x 1 + $150 x 4 = $975 for one month. Obviously not all $975 will go directly to Roland Piquepaille, as Blogads gets a portion of that as a service fee, but he will receive the majority of it. According to the FAQ [blogads.com], Blogads takes 20%. So Roland Piquepaille gets 80% of $975, a maximum of $780 each month. www.primidi.com is hosted by clara.net (look it up at http://www.networksolutions.com/en_US/whois/index [networksolutions.com]) . Browsing clara.net's hosting solutions, the most expensive ho

Roland Piquepaille and Slashdot: Is there a connection?

I think most of you are aware of the controversy surrounding regular Slashdot article submitter Roland Piquepaille. For those of you who don't know, please allow me to bring forth all the facts. Roland Piquepaille has an online journal (I refuse to use the word "blog") located at www.primidi.com [primidi.com] . It is titled "Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends". It consists almost entirely of content, both text and pictures, taken from reputable news websites and online technical journals. He does give credit to the other websites, but it wasn't always so. Only after many complaints were raised by the Slashdot readership did he start giving credit where credit was due. However, this is not what the controversy is about.

Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends serves online advertisements through a service called Blogads, located at www.blogads.com [blogads.com]. Blogads is not your traditional online advertiser; rather than base payments on click-throughs, Blogads pays a flat fee based on the level of traffic your online journal generates. This way Blogads can guarantee that an advertisement on a particular online journal will reach a particular number of users. So advertisements on high traffic online journals are appropriately more expensive to buy, but the advertisement is guaranteed to be seen by a large amount of people. This, in turn, encourages people like Roland Piquepaille to try their best to increase traffic to their journals in order to increase the going rates for advertisements on their web pages. But advertisers do have some flexibility. Blogads serves two classes of advertisements. The premium ad space that is seen at the top of the web page by all viewers is reserved for "Special Advertisers"; it holds only one advertisement. The secondary ad space is located near the bottom half of the page, so that the user must scroll down the window to see it. This space can contain up to four advertisements and is reserved for regular advertisers, or just "Advertisers". Visit Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends (www.primidi.com [primidi.com]) to see it for yourself.

Before we talk about money, let's talk about the service that Roland Piquepaille provides in his journal. He goes out and looks for interesting articles about new and emerging technologies. He provides a very brief overview of the articles, then copies a few choice paragraphs and the occasional picture from each article and puts them up on his web page. Finally, he adds a minimal amount of original content between the copied-and-pasted text in an effort to make the journal entry coherent and appear to add value to the original articles. Nothing more, nothing less.

Now let's talk about money.

Visit http://www.blogads.com/order_html?adstrip_category =tech&politics= [blogads.com] to check the following facts for yourself. As of today, December XX 2004, the going rate for the premium advertisement space on Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends is $375 for one month. One of the four standard advertisements costs $150 for one month. So, the maximum advertising space brings in $375 x 1 + $150 x 4 = $975 for one month. Obviously not all $975 will go directly to Roland Piquepaille, as Blogads gets a portion of that as a service fee, but he will receive the majority of it. According to the FAQ [blogads.com], Blogads takes 20%. So Roland Piquepaille gets 80% of $975, a maximum of $780 each month. www.primidi.com is hosted by clara.net (look it up at http://www.networksolutions.com/en_US/whois/index [networksolutions.com]) . Browsing clara.net's hosting solutions, the most expensive hosting service is t

Roland Piquepaille and Slashdot: Is there a connection?

I think most of you are aware of the controversy surrounding regular Slashdot article submitter Roland Piquepaille. For those of you who don't know, please allow me to bring forth all the facts. Roland Piquepaille has an online journal (I refuse to use the word "blog") located at www.primidi.com . It is titled "Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends". It consists almost entirely of content, both text and pictures, taken from reputable news websites and online technical journals. He does give credit to the other websites, but it wasn't always so. Only after many complaints were raised by the Slashdot readership did he start giving credit where credit was due. However, this is not what the controversy is about.

Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends serves online advertisements through a service called Blogads, located at www.blogads.com. Blogads is not your traditional online advertiser; rather than base payments on click-throughs, Blogads pays a flat fee based on the level of traffic your online journal generates. This way Blogads can guarantee that an advertisement on a particular online journal will reach a particular number of users. So advertisements on high traffic online journals are appropriately more expensive to buy, but the advertisement is guaranteed to be seen by a large amount of people. This, in turn, encourages people like Roland Piquepaille to try their best to increase traffic to their journals in order to increase the going rates for advertisements on their web pages. But advertisers do have some flexibility. Blogads serves two classes of advertisements. The premium ad space that is seen at the top of the web page by all viewers is reserved for "Special Advertisers"; it holds only one advertisement. The secondary ad space is located near the bottom half of the page, so that the user must scroll down the window to see it. This space can contain up to four advertisements and is reserved for regular advertisers, or just "Advertisers". Visit Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends (www.primidi.com) to see it for yourself.

Before we talk about money, let's talk about the service that Roland Piquepaille provides in his journal. He goes out and looks for interesting articles about new and emerging technologies. He provides a very brief overview of the articles, then copies a few choice paragraphs and the occasional picture from each article and puts them up on his web page. Finally, he adds a minimal amount of original content between the copied-and-pasted text in an effort to make the journal entry coherent and appear to add value to the original articles. Nothing more, nothing less.

Now let's talk about money.

Visit http://www.blogads.com/order_html?adstrip_category =tech&politics= to check the following facts for yourself. As of today, December XX 2004, the going rate for the premium advertisement space on Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends is $375 for one month. One of the four standard advertisements costs $150 for one month. So, the maximum advertising space brings in $375 x 1 + $150 x 4 = $975 for one month. Obviously not all $975 will go directly to Roland Piquepaille, as Blogads gets a portion of that as a service fee, but he will receive the majority of it. According to the FAQ, Blogads takes 20%. So Roland Piquepaille gets 80% of $975, a maximum of $780 each month. www.primidi.com is hosted by clara.net (look it up at http://www.networksolutions.com/en_US/whois/index) . Browsing clara.net's hosting solutions, the most expensive hosting service is their Clarahost Advanced (

Roland Piquepaille and Slashdot: Is there a connection?

I think most of you are aware of the controversy surrounding regular Slashdot article submitter Roland Piquepaille. For those of you who don't know, please allow me to bring forth all the facts. Roland Piquepaille has an online journal (I refuse to use the word "blog") located at www.primidi.com. It is titled "Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends". It consists almost entirely of content, both text and pictures, taken from reputable news websites and online technical journals. He does give credit to the other websites, but it wasn't always so. Only after many complaints were raised by the Slashdot readership did he start giving credit where credit was due. However, this is not what the controversy is about.

Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends serves online advertisements through a service called Blogads, located at www.blogads.com. Blogads is not your traditional online advertiser; rather than base payments on click-throughs, Blogads pays a flat fee based on the level of traffic your online journal generates. This way Blogads can guarantee that an advertisement on a particular online journal will reach a particular number of users. So advertisements on high traffic online journals are appropriately more expensive to buy, but the advertisement is guaranteed to be seen by a large amount of people. This, in turn, encourages people like Roland Piquepaille to try their best to increase traffic to their journals in order to increase the going rates for advertisements on their web pages. But advertisers do have some flexibility. Blogads serves two classes of advertisements. The premium ad space that is seen at the top of the web page by all viewers is reserved for "Special Advertisers"; it holds only one advertisement. The secondary ad space is located near the bottom half of the page, so that the user must scroll down the window to see it. This space can contain up to four advertisements and is reserved for regular advertisers, or just "Advertisers". Visit Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends (www.primidi.com) to see it for yourself.

Before we talk about money, let's talk about the service that Roland Piquepaille provides in his journal. He goes out and looks for interesting articles about new and emerging technologies. He provides a very brief overview of the articles, then copies a few choice paragraphs and the occasional picture from each article and puts them up on his web page. Finally, he adds a minimal amount of original content between the copied-and-pasted text in an effort to make the journal entry coherent and appear to add value to the original articles. Nothing more, nothing less.

Now let's talk about money. Visit http://www.blogads.com/order_html?adstrip_category =tech&politics= to check the following facts for yourself. As of today, December XX 2004, the going rate for the premium advertisement space on Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends is $375 for one month. One of the four standard advertisements costs $150 for one month. So, the maximum advertising space brings in $375 x 1 + $150 x 4 = $975 for one month. Obviously not all $975 will go directly to Roland Piquepaille, as Blogads gets a portion of that as a service fee, but he will receive the majority of it. According to the FAQ, Blogads takes 20%. So Roland Piquepaille gets 80% of $975, a maximum of $780 each month. www.primidi.com is hosted by clara.net (look it up at http://www.networksolutions.com/en_US/whois/index. jhtml [networksolutions.com]). Browsing clara.net's hosting solutions, the most expensive hosting service is their Clarahost Advanced (http://

Roland Piquepaille and Slashdot: Is there a connection?

I think most of you are aware of the controversy surrounding regular Slashdot article submitter Roland Piquepaille. For those of you who don't know, please allow me to bring forth all the facts. Roland Piquepaille has an online journal (I refuse to use the word "blog") located at www.primidi.com. It is titled "Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends". It consists almost entirely of content, both text and pictures, taken from reputable news websites and online technical journals. He does give credit to the other websites, but it wasn't always so. Only after many complaints were raised by the Slashdot readership did he start giving credit where credit was due. However, this is not what the controversy is about.

Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends serves online advertisements through a service called Blogads, located at www.blogads.com. Blogads is not your traditional online advertiser; rather than base payments on click-throughs, Blogads pays a flat fee based on the level of traffic your online journal generates. This way Blogads can guarantee that an advertisement on a particular online journal will reach a particular number of users. So advertisements on high traffic online journals are appropriately more expensive to buy, but the advertisement is guaranteed to be seen by a large amount of people. This, in turn, encourages people like Roland Piquepaille to try their best to increase traffic to their journals in order to increase the going rates for advertisements on their web pages. But advertisers do have some flexibility. Blogads serves two classes of advertisements. The premium ad space that is seen at the top of the web page by all viewers is reserved for "Special Advertisers"; it holds only one advertisement. The secondary ad space is located near the bottom half of the page, so that the user must scroll down the window to see it. This space can contain up to four advertisements and is reserved for regular advertisers, or just "Advertisers". Visit Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends (www.primidi.com) to see it for yourself.

Before we talk about money, let's talk about the service that Roland Piquepaille provides in his journal. He goes out and looks for interesting articles about new and emerging technologies. He provides a very brief overview of the articles, then copies a few choice paragraphs and the occasional picture from each article and puts them up on his web page. Finally, he adds a minimal amount of original content between the copied-and-pasted text in an effort to make the journal entry coherent and appear to add value to the original articles. Nothing more, nothing less.

Now let's talk about money. Visit http://www.blogads.com/order_html?adstrip_category =tech&politics= to check the following facts for yourself. As of today, December XX 2004, the going rate for the premium advertisement space on Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends is $375 for one month. One of the four standard advertisements costs $150 for one month. So, the maximum advertising space brings in $375 x 1 + $150 x 4 = $975 for one month. Obviously not all $975 will go directly to Roland Piquepaille, as Blogads gets a portion of that as a service fee, but he will receive the majority of it. According to the FAQ, Blogads takes 20%. So Roland Piquepaille gets 80% of $975, a maximum of $780 each month. www.primidi.com is hosted by clara.net (look it up at http://www.networksolutions.com/en_US/whois/index. jhtml). Browsing clara.net's hosting solutions, the most expensive hosting service is their Clarahost Advanced (http://ww

Which one did you register again? It looks it's still up for grabs to me...

FWIW, googlelovesjesus.com is available.

At least for the next few seconds.

The press release is at http://www.penguinputnam.com/static/packages/us/ab out/press/press76.pdf.

Not sure if this whois link will work or not, but agirlslifeonline.com was just registered yesterday to Katie Tarbox. Probably a smart idea.

Turns out that the administrative contact information for KATIET.COM is bogus, at least the email portion.

Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
TARBOX, KATIE (KT6079) agidore26@aol.com
745 CARTER ST
NEW CANAAN, CT 06840-5024
US
203 966 1828

I tried to send an email to that address to ask if she would post her side of the story on her site somewhere and had it bounce back. Now I don't know how nsi deals with this sort of thing, but in the past, i've had registrars breath fire down my neck b/c I had old, outdated information in my whois records.

I'm currently submitting a service request with nsi but I'm not sure if this is the right channel to for this. Anyone else have any other contact information for submitting bogus whois information to nsi?

Domain Name: KATIE.COM
Registrar: TOTALREGISTRATIONS
Whois Server: whois.totalregistrations.com
Referral URL: http://www.totalregistrations.com
Name Server: NS1.SEDLEY.NET
Name Server: NS2.SEDLEY.NET
Status: ACTIVE
Updated Date: 10-nov-2002
Creation Date: 23-aug-1996
Expiration Date: 22-aug-2005

(hmmmm.... for some reason, BLOCKQUOTE ain't newlining???)

Looks like nobody told Networks Solutions: 100 year advance domain registrations.

- Oisin

Even the big dog, Network Solutions, looks like they don't allow you to add TXT records.

Might be helpful if a lot more people started to ask. :)

Works fine without referer, remove your UA string however and get this and only this.

Because they want to extort more money from you to hide it:

random domain info
Add Private Registration: $9 a year per domain
Keep your registration information for assadasfdas.com out of the hands of spammers and telemarketers with Private Registration.

Check on the whois listing of the
jackito-pda.com.

Maybe the in French has different computational standard than the US.

http://www.networksolutions.com/en_US/whois/result s.jhtml;jsessionid=GBG2FGJRK0RFYCWLEAMBFEY?whoisto ken=8&_requestid=358746

Changing the sessionid does nothing.
Changing the requestid does nothing.

Changing the whois token cycles through different sites somehow. Anybody got a clue what the format of the URL is?

Tech-Recipes.com: Solaris/Linux/Windows Hints = Money

Except that now, anyone who cares to do a simple whois lookup on the domain ww.com will quickly find himself in the posession of your name, address, and phone number, in addition to your e-mail.

Not that anyone will call. But still, maybe you'd better think about that?

Some registrars provide some extra privacy for a small fee (Netsol charges $5). Other registrars have similar offerings. Check it out.

Because all the car thieves that I know are such avid users of the whois database for looking up domain information. Why I remember that part in Gone in Sixty Seconds where Nicolas Cage used the Network Solutions whois page to lookup the address for the Shelby Mustang he needs to steal. If only the owner had been allowed to falsify his whois contact information his car would have been safe.

Ever hear of a P.O. Box? They'll protect you just as well without lying or risking the loss of your domain name (or other property).

From Network Solutions site -

With a Network Solutions Private Registration, you receive alternate contact information displayed in your WHOIS listing, without giving up your standing as the registrant of the domain name, unlike "proxy" services. This enables you to view and make changes to your account contact information, as well as all of your settings associated with your domain name registration from your Network Solutions Account Manager - no separate account manager Web site to login to. Also, you're not restricted from transferring your domain name registration to another registrant or registrar.

It sounds like they are registering your domain with contact information that points to them, but that you are allowed to control the domain from their site.

They most likely are using a valid address that refers to an internal database for them to contact you if the need comes about.

Actually, if I remember correctly, this is about what Altavista has looked like for some time now. Also note that by doing a WhoIs for Altavista.com, you will find that Altavista is owned by Yahoo!... Which I just don't know about, to be honest. I use their mail service, but their search page is so bloated and ugly, full of content I neither want nor need from a search engine. As a result, Google is set as my home page, and when I want to check my web-mail account, I have a hotlink directly to https://mail.yahoo.com (cleartext password transmission is bad, mmmm'kay?). When I want information, want it fast, and want it organized in manner that at least vaguely appears to be relevant, I go to Google.

Waaayyyyy back in the day when I used to work at D.E.C. ('97 to early '99), I and most of my friends and co-workers swore by Altavista... Guess it also didn't hurt that I could feel the hum from the servers that powered it through my chair some days. Boy have things changed, but then, not much changed for the better after the Comwhaq buyout.

One major annoyance with Google lately though... Those stupid results that come back as the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th result for evey search I've run in the last month+... You know, the ones that say "Find 'x' using the free 2020 search toolbar", and, "Find 'x' on smartpages.com," and "Find 'x' With Free Websearch Tools." What is up with this??? Why for they cannot make these go away, bitte? If I wanted to search for these somewhere else, I would do so. Why is Google doing free advertising for these people, as they are obviously not paid ads, but standard returns that appear to be just a database/dictionary/meta-tag exploit... Someone at Google must know about this, and I just don't understand why it's been allowed to continue, as this has completely ruined so much of their credibility since now 3 out of the first five results of any query are now completely unrelated and inaccurate =(

Otherwise, I've been loving on Google about 2 1/2 years now, and I haven't really looked back, even when I read sites (1, and 2) that called into question google's privacy practices, I wasn't really deterred, but these bad returns may be all it takes to make me start considering another move.

Doing a quick whois seach networksolutions.com reveals that the site is based in the US so Xerox could sue to get the info pulled within US jursidiction, but they couldn't touch the author according to the DMCA because he's not in that jurisdiction. IANAL, so I wonder what legal channels Xerox could take in Argentina.

we are a large domain name registrar (not the largest, but close).

The largest registrar does use Java.

here is the original message i sent:
Verisign has continually been abusing the power that has been handed out to them. Two such examples are its mailing of false renewal notices, and its most recent exploit: sitefinder.verisign.com. Now, nearly all mistyped names will be sent to Verisign where they can do whatever they like to the unwitting user. There are even categories on sitefinder.verisign.com where one can browse and go to sites which are undoubtedly paying Verisign for the space. Please take this, and the hundreds or thousands of e-mails you will receive, into consideration, and exercise the power that ICANN has. Verisign has continually been abusing and tricking people through deceptive business practices, and this should be the last straw. Verisign should not only be removed from it's post, but it should also be fined for its numerous escapades designed to make money. Sincerely, Jay Taylor

here are the replies so far:
enterprise-pkisupport@verisign.com
Site Finder Service
VeriSign's Site Finder service improves the web browsing experience when the user has submitted a query for a nonexistent second-level domain name in the .com and .net top-level domains. Before this service was implemented, when a user entered a URL containing a nonexistent (e.g., unregistered) domain name ending in .com or .net, their web browser returned an error message that contained no useful information. With the introduction of Site Finder, users now receive a helpful web page offering links to possible intended destinations, related categories, and the ability to conduct additional searches immediately. For more information, please email: sitefinder@verisign-grs.com

CustomerService@NetworkSolutions.com
Dear Mr. Taylor,
Thank you for contacting Network Solutions.
We apologize for the inconvenience you are experiencing.
Much to our regret, we may not be able to assist you with your concern, as what you are encountering is a system recently applied by the Global Registry.
Site Finder is a new service offered by the VeriSign Global Registry. For more information, please contact VeriSign at sitefinder@verisign-grs.com
Please know that your inquiry is important to us, and we value your business.
Best regards,
Edwin001 Network Solutions, Inc.

improves the web-browsing experience my ass...abuses a monopoly is more like it. oh ya, they forgot to mention how much extra revenue it would generate for them. sLeAzEy.
:( what has the world come to. sad.

also- here is the list of emails that i sent the msg to:
authenticode-support@verisign.com; billing@verisign.com; channel-partners@verisign.com; clientpki@verisign.com; consultingsolutions@verisign.com; dbms-support@verisign.com; dcpolicy@verisign.com; digitalbranding@verisign.com; dnssales@verisign.com; enterprise-pkisupport@verisign.com; enterprise-sslsupport@verisign.com; info@verisign-grs.com; internetsales@verisign.com; IR@verisign.com; jobs@verisign.com; mss@verisign.com; objectsigning-support@verisign.com; paymentsales@verisign.com; practices@verisign.com; premiersupport@networksolutions.com; press@verisign.com; privacy@networksolutions.com; renewal@verisign.com; support@verisign.com; verisales@verisign.com; vps-support@verisign.com; vts-csrgroup@verisign.com; vts-mktginfo@verisign.com; webhelp@verisign.com; websitesales@verisign.com; websitesupport@verisign.com

If you're upset about this, I'd recommend calling one of the 800/888 numbers on the Verisign Corporate Contacts Page and lodging a formal complaint.

You can also email your concerns directly to customer service (which is what they will have you do after you call, anyway)

As of right now, smtp is also enabled on that IP. Haven't received a bounce message yet for an intentionally incorrect email. Wonder where all the badly addressed spam will go now?

That's because you shouldn't be querying them directly, all they tell you is what server(s) deal with ".com" or ".net" (or ".tv", etc...)

Try using A.GTLD-SERVERS.NET instead, foo.

(Side note: *.root-servers.net is operated by the NSI Registry division, not the Registrar division.)

Interestingly, according to NetworkSolutions, the website is not registered to Microsoft but to
Network OS (AROOATPWFD)
15821 NE 8th St.
Suite W200
Bellevue, WA 98008
US

Hmmm... Let's see, you've got a recording of a horribly bad telemarketing pitch from Disney. I notice that disneysux.com is available. Looks like a match made in heaven to me.

Yay! it's not taken!

Now if I can get some of that grant money....

Mister Brogdon, in one life you're a law abiding citizen, you read the newspaper, go to work, and even take out the garbage. In the other, you go by the slashdot alias 'brogdon', you try to steal our Products. Yess you Mister Brogdon, your precious house in Florida is no more. But we're willing to wipe the slate clean. Simply, tell us where the others are.

-Microsoft 'Agent'

For example, the mere fact that I have an SSL certificate does not mean that you are safe submitting your credit card to my site, although it means you know who I am and can contact me or my company if something happens.

Yeah, no-one ever faked WHOIS information or got a certificate for someone else.

Take a look in whois for appleuniversal.com, and find This

Hahahah!!! Tricked You!!!
April Fools
Tricked You!, HA HA HA HAHAHA
US
Domain Name: APPLEUNIVERSAL.COM

Has on-one else noticed this?

Then explain, Mr Jobs, why Apple owns the domain appleuniversal.com?

Sweet mother of shit, you ain't kidding! That sucker is 230Kbytes and contains about 33000 words.

See here.

Next they will try a TLD with umlauts and maybe some of the cyrilic letters.

That's old news. Incidentally, why just "some" of the cyrillic letters? You mean, like these: A B E M H O P T X ?

The price NetSol charges, like with anything else, is outrageous, but that's not the worst of it. When I tried to have the domain transferred to Go Daddy (much, much cheaper), I found that I can't! In fact, what I believe happens is that once you apply for your .NAME domain (i.e., john.smith.name), NetSol takes ownership of "smith.name", and you're given the right to use the "john" subdomain -- it can't be transferred! (or, at least, they're not allowing it)

NetSol also makes you purchase email hosting with the domain, and tries to tack on some web hosting. Simply put, DO NOT go through NetSol for this service. (I can hear the collective, "Well DUH!" now)

This is why I'm letting my .NAME domain dry up and die, and will continue to handle my email the way I always have. There's no way in hell I'm paying NetSol's outrageous prices until I'm able to transfer to some other registry.

whois for musiccdsettlement.com

The domain is registered to Rust Consulting, Inc. They specialize in technology class-action lawsuits. And their address matches that in the whois records.

Looks legit to me.

Yeah, it's a good thing no one can get your address from knowing what your site is.

Actually, if you want to transfer domains to Verisign/NetSol, they play the same game as Register.com and some others, of offering you a low first-year's transfer fee, then later renewals at higher than the bulk registration market's price.

I recently switched a bunch of names from Melbourne IT to Register.com after getting a flyer in the mail offering a transfer ("plus remaining time on your old registration" for something like $15 per year, or cheaper if you get longer terms. Unfortunately, their normal quoted registrations are like $30 a year, so I wouldn't have done it otherwise. Verisign's offer was similar (no flyer needed but $19 a year for transfers), but I was a bit leery of their bad rep regarding tying up domain names that expire, yanking registrations away anytime a big business hints that it wants a domain, etc., and I remembered the spam that I got from them to my hostmaster address when a domain was registered through them.

For that matter, the agent of Melbourne IT that I went through had prices similar to Verisign's, but I had to order and renew each domain separately, which was a pain, and I figured, if another provider (in this case, Register.com) could do it cheaper and put them all in one place for me to manage, great. If they try to charge me the "regular" price next year, I'll move them all again; I'll risk a few placements with "bulk" registrars once I see that they've survived another year post-internet-burst-bubble.

One thing I do miss about having my domains at the old Network Solutions: the ability to use a crypto key to manage the domains, and doing it all through email. Of course, the downside of using email for their plaintext password alternative was that anyone could see that password, and I'm guessing that email insecurity made forging transfers easier.

I work for a webhosting company and have had to deal with concerned and confused customers who have recieved emails from the Domain Registry of America, a sister company of Verisign. (I believe.. correct me if I'm wrong. Nonetheless this is very shady business practices and caused me LOTS of hassle.

I would like to offer a bit of perspective on why Verisign is doing this. First it is important to note that it is Verisign GRS (the registry) which is considering this and not Network Solutions (the Verisign Registrar). Currently when a name expires it is up to each registrar to determine what happens to that name. When a domain expires it is actually automatically renewed by the registry. It is then up to the registrar to decide if the name should be deleted permanently. The registrar has up to 45 days to make that decision before the 1 year renewal fee is permanent.

Now, Verisign the Registrar releases a lot of domains to the public right now after a certain period of time. At this time the names are released and numerous registrars attempt to snag those names when they are dropped. This practice has caused headaches to no end at Verisign the Registry. It essentially acts as a denial of service attack as all the different registrars pound the registry trying to snatch those dropped names. Were talking hundreds of thousands of queries every minute.

This new propsed system is a response to this situation. It is designed to end the constant pounding of the registry. Granted it may not be the best solution but it is only the first draft and it must be okayed by ICANN first, thus there is a strong possibility that it will not be implemented. However something is needed in order to make the domain deletion process less system intensive as the registry cannot continue to support the amount of traffic caused by these domains dropping.

These 'people' (actually I'm not sure if they are people, I've certainly never been able to speak to a human there. I suspect it might be more of an evil artificial intelligence) are the worst. I have been trying to update an out of date email for an admin contact for months. Last time I faxed them official company letterheads, drivers licences, you name it and other than the automated email "we got your request" they maintain a stony silience and the domain info remains the same.

They are more evil than microsoft. I wish someone would declare a Jihad against them.

Some guy already registered aoltimewarnermicrosoft.com. Wonder if his investment will pay off.

don't forget the fact that aol is foaming at the mouth for Yahoo! Check it:

http://www.networksolutions.com/cgi-bin/whois/whoi s?STRING=aoltimewarneryahoo.com&STRING=Search

Forget Microsoft. Fear AOL.

was created one week after Steve Gibson and Microsoft go to war over the WinXP Raw Sockets Vulnerability ... what a coincidence for a well-done spoof site of Steve Gibson's to go online a week after Steve and MS start fighting

has bogus/ridiculous/fake Registrant, Administrative, Technical, & Billing WHOIS information

We are all part of a team, the team can work together to ensure:

spoofed packets don't leave a team-member's network

OS's that allow easy IP spoofing are changed to make it difficult to spoof by implementing access controls a la WinNT/Unix/Linux. Evidently WinXP consumer edition has ZERO-DESIRE to be a team-player like its Win95/98/NT cousins.

FYI, Steve Gibson has posted his latest explanation of the WinXP Raw Sockets Vulnerability here from whence the concern of "WinXP boxes and ... their [spoofed] IP addresses" evidently first originated.

Steve & Co. also provide two "quick 'n dirty" FREE programs to download to:

test your access to "raw sockets" (all Win OS)

secure NON-SYSTEM "raw sockets" access (Win2K & WinXP) to see that Win2K & WinXP continue to function just fine

The funny part is that Steve Gibson now uses Microsoft's own MSDN Technical Documentation against Microsoft. Steve provides quotes from the Microsoft MSDN websites and links to the original Microsoft Technical Documentation

As of 8/13/01 @ 0801 PST, all the links to the Microsoft Technical Documentation PROVING (?) Steve Gibson's points were fully functional.

BTW, for a "nail biting" (grin - soon to be a motion picture - grin) tale of one man's experience with a Distributed Denial of Service attack read both here and SlashDot commentary to learn where Steve's fear of WinXP Raw Sockets originates (i.e. WinXP zombies doing DDOS with the easy to spoof WinXP box IP addresses due to desktop Joe/Jane-consumer user always being "root")

Evidently, Steve Gibson can now quote chapter and verse back to Microsoft and ask Microsoft "Why are you [microsoft] now contradicting yourself."

BTW, there is now an "astroturf" (?) website devoted to debunking Steve Gibson here although all the DNS details seem bogus ("How convenient for the astroturf PR agency!!!" says the Church lady)