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Google Wins 'Typosquatting' Dispute

Posted by timothy on from the wrongful-clacking dept.

JeiFuRi writes "The National Arbitration Forum has awarded Google the rights to several web addresses such as googkle.com, ghoogle.com, and gooigle.com, alleging that Sergey Gridasov of St. Petersburg, Russia, had engaged in 'typosquatting.' Business Week comments that Gridasov relied on typographical errors to exploit the online search engine's popularity so computer viruses and other malicious software could be unleashed on unsuspecting visitors."

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  1. Google nothing, Slashdot is trying to hack me. by Darby · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So I notice this crap scrolling by on my firewall console:

    Jul 9 07:26:30 bugger1 sshd[23399]: Failed password for daemon from 60.31.216.151 port 47429 ssh2
    Jul 9 07:26:30 bugger1 sshd[22665]: Failed password for daemon from 60.31.216.151 port 47429 ssh2
    Jul 9 07:26:31 bugger1 sshd[23399]: Received disconnect from 60.31.216.151: 11: Bye Bye
    Jul 9 07:26:35 bugger1 sshd[4491]: Failed password for daemon from 60.31.216.151 port 47604 ssh2
    Jul 9 07:26:35 bugger1 sshd[28252]: Failed password for daemon from 60.31.216.151 port 47604 ssh2
    Jul 9 07:26:35 bugger1 sshd[4491]: Received disconnect from 60.31.216.151: 11: Bye Bye
    Jul 9 07:26:39 bugger1 sshd[24050]: Illegal user darren from 60.31.216.151
    Jul 9 07:26:39 bugger1 sshd[24050]: Failed password for illegal user darren from 60.31.216.151 port 47730 ssh2
    Jul 9 07:26:39 bugger1 sshd[13017]: input_userauth_request: illegal user darren
    Jul 9 07:26:39 bugger1 sshd[13017]: Failed password for illegal user darren from 60.31.216.151 port 47730 ssh2
    Jul 9 07:26:40 bugger1 sshd[13017]: Received disconnect from 60.31.216.151: 11: Bye Bye

    (pages more).....

    So I traceroute it, and where do you suppose I ended up:

    1 0 0 0 0.4 ms

    66.36.240.2 AS14361
    HOPONE-DCA c-vl102-d1.acc.dca2.hopone.net. 255 US Unknown: 827d82a4
    2 0 0 0 0.4 ms [+0ms]

    66.36.224.227 AS0
    IANA-RSVD-0 ge5-0.core2.dca2.hopone.net. 0 miles [+0] 254 US Unix: 19:52:02. 92
    3 1 1 1 1.6 ms [+1ms]

    66.36.224.185 AS0
    IANA-RSVD-0 unknown.hopone.net 0 miles [+0] 252 US Unix: 19:52:08.637
    4 2 2 2 2.0 ms [+0ms]

    206.24.226.99 AS3561
    SAVVIS dcr1-loopback.washington.savvis.net. 0 miles [+0] 252 US Unix: 19:52:08.669
    5 5 3 4 3.9 ms [+1ms]

    204.70.192.162 AS3561
    SAVVIS bcs2-so-5-2-0-500.washington.savvis.net. 0 miles [+0] 251 US Unix: 19:52:08.704
    6 77 75 76 75 ms [+72ms]

    204.70.192.90 AS3561
    SAVVIS dcr2-so-2-0-0.sanfranciscosfo.savvis.net. 0 miles [+0] 245 US Unix: 19:52:08.891
    7 92 89 82 77 ms [+1ms]

    208.172.156.198 AS3561
    SAVVIS bhr1-pos-0-0.santaclarasc8.savvis.net. 0 miles [+0] 244 US Unix: 19:52:08.902
    8 107 78 78 77 ms [+0ms]

    66.35.194.50 AS3561
    SAVVIS csr1-ve243.santaclarasc8.savvis.net. 0 miles [+0] 51 US [Router did not respond]
    9 88 87 83 77 ms [+0ms]

    66.35.212.174 AS3561
    SAVVIS unknown.savvis.net 0 miles [+0] 50 US [Router did not respond]
    10 77 77 * 77 ms [+0ms]

    66.35.250.151 AS3561
    SAVVIS
    [Reached Destination]star.slashdot.org. 0 miles [+0] 50 US Unix: 19:52:09.114