RE: [ga] Network Solutions Hijacking Unassigned Sub-Domains

["Dominik Filipp" <dominik.filipp@xxxxxxxx>]

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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