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RE: [ga] Network Solutions Hijacking Unassigned Sub-Domains
- To: <chris@xxxxxx>, "Danny Younger" <dannyyounger@xxxxxxxxx>, <ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: RE: [ga] Network Solutions Hijacking Unassigned Sub-Domains
- From: "Dominik Filipp" <dominik.filipp@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 22:55:52 +0200
I don't think so.
It rather seems like the catch-all "*" A record in the netsol's DNS
record for a domain points to an advertising server. This can be done
for domains registered with netsol and 'DNS-hosted' by their own DNS
servers. This often happens when you use the registrar's/provider's DNS
servers and just simply URL-forward the domain somewhere else.
Dominik
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of chris@xxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 9:21 PM
To: Danny Younger; ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ga] Network Solutions Hijacking Unassigned Sub-Domains
Looks to me like it could be someone playing games and not netsol doing
it.
Has to do with the host file being edited possibly?
Chris McElroy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Danny Younger" <dannyyounger@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 11:51 AM
Subject: [ga] Network Solutions Hijacking Unassigned Sub-Domains
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/08/network-solutions-hijacking-unassig
ned-sub-domains/
[excerpt]
"Network Solutions is hijacking unassigned sub domains
and delivering link filled holding pages for hundreds
of thousands of sites.
Win Betteridge runs GotGame.com and contacted
TechCrunch with the details:
For instance, app.gotgame.com resolves to a Network
Solutions page with text links, including "Poker
Tournaments" and "Texas Holdem Games." The same is
true of any other unassigned sub-domain. We have
spoken to customer service a few times about fixing
this problem.
According to a search on DomainTools there are 294,438
sites on the same Network Solutions IP address as
GotGame.com. I ran a test on the sites listed (for
free) by DomainTools and every single one had the same
issue: unassigned domain names with link filled
Network Solutions holding pages."
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