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

[Bashar Al-Abdulhadi <bashar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

and lots and lots of hosting providers does this all over the world too





Dominik Filipp wrote, On 4/9/2008 11:55 PM:

> 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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