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MacSlash Domain Stolen

Posted by pudge on from the sigh dept.

MacSlash's Robert Daeley writes in to tell us that the domain name for MacSlash, the Mac news site, is incorrectly pointing to a generic "Dotster" page, either by accident or by malicious domain theft or squatting. They have registered macslash.net and hope to be back up again soon, and have as yet been unable to get word from "Dotster" regarding how this all happened.

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  1. but.. by dalassa · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I thought domain name stealing/squatting had pretty much ended with google.

    Oh well, sadly it appears that Dotster has enough server power to avoid a massive slashdotting.

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  2. Posted to Metafilter by mcwetboy · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I've posted this to Metafilter, where domain hijackings have been a frequent topic of discussion (see discussions re succaland.com, smug.com and hoopla.com, where some insight into the subject of domain hijacking might be gained, perhaps).

    Still got MacSlash at home this morning, but I've been getting Dotster instead at work since yesterday.

  3. evil dotster javascript by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I'm using mozilla rc3 on linux.

    The dotster holding page creates two new windows, then immediately hides them. In the brief interval before they disappear, I noticed an amazon.com url in one.

    The windows disappear from the workspace, but leave placeholders in the KDE panel which don't disappear until I kill the browser.

    So I don't know for sure what dotster is up to, but it looks like they may be trying to artificially inflate their clickthrough revenue from amazon.com.

    - harv