Re: [ga] Network Solutions Hijacking Unassigned Sub-Domains
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 doingit. 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." __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Attachment:
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