North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Possible login/password grabbing ploy
On 11 May 98 at 20:16, Ryan Jeffs wrote: > There has been at least one other company that I know of in the past > couple of years that has done this, although the name slips my mind. Their > purpose was to hit poorly spelling surfers with ad's when they typed > "ayhoo.com" or "entcom.com" etc... accidently in their browser. Legitimate > use of the domains, no matter how stupid :) An illegitmate use of these types of domain is easily proven in cases such as one I dealt with a year or so ago. In a domain that was one character off from one that my company owned, DNS revealed that there was a record for every server hostname that was on my network (and they weren't all commonly-used hostnames, either). If anyone can think of some ethical and non-malicious reason to do this, I would be interested in hearing it. Mark Borchers InfiNet
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