It is willful with respect to foundation.com but not p2p.foundation.com. If you use any *.foundation.com you will get the same result. It's a wide net. How did you happen to fall into it? I suspect that foundation.com is a relatively valuable property and it is being squatted on for the purpose of making a good sale of the lease at some point. - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Michel Bauwens [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2011 17:57 To: P2P Foundation mailing list Cc: Samuel Rose; [email protected] Subject: Re: [P2P-F] please note hijacking of our address ... yes, some form of spamlinking to obtain visits and present ads I guess .... as there is actually no content ... but the attempt is clearly willfull .. Michel On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 1:48 AM, Samuel Rose <[email protected]> wrote: p2p foundation doesn't own foundation.net so it is actually not a hijack, but a kind of spoofing where they are using a domain that looks close to, but is not exactly your actual domain On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton <[email protected]> wrote: > Subdomains are not issued by domain registries. However, a site tenant might sublet a subdomain to someone. I have a web site that allows me unlimited subdomains. These can also be used as anchors for implementation of add-on domains. E.g., my domain for <http://nfoWorks.org> is targeted at my actual web site as <http://nfoworks.nfocentrale.com> and that maps onto <http://nfocentrale.com/nfoworks/>. I don't publicize the subdomains because I don't want people to bookmark them: if I move or re-organize the site, such bookmarks would no longer work. > > The address has not been hijacked. The address p2p.foundation.net is a different address. If p2pfoundation.net had been routed to an unauthorized place, that would be hijacking. > > What it looks like in the current instance is that the holder of foundation.net simply routes unimplemented subdomains to a generic home page. There are sites like this all over the Internet, some intentionally designed to make fruit from mistyped URLs. > > Michel, did you see a scraped version of the <http://p2pFoundation.net/Category:Peergovernance> page or did you see a version of the page that now appears, the one with the same content from <http://foundation.net> with possibly-different formatting? > > - Dennis > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Samuel Rose > Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2011 07:24 > To: P2P Foundation mailing list > Subject: Re: [P2P-F] please note hijacking of our address ... > > Does P2PF own the subdomain p2p.foundation.net ? > > [ ... ] > > > _______________________________________________ > P2P Foundation - Mailing list > http://www.p2pfoundation.net > https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation > -- -- Sam Rose Future Forward Institute and Forward Foundation Tel:+1(517) 639-1552 Cel: +1-(517)-974-6451 skype: samuelrose email: [email protected] http://forwardfound.org http://futureforwardinstitute.org http://hollymeadcapital.com http://p2pfoundation.net http://socialmediaclassroom.com "The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition." - Carl Sagan _______________________________________________ P2P Foundation - Mailing list http://www.p2pfoundation.net https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Commons Strategies Group, http://www.commonsstrategies.org/