Cc: Samuel Rose;
dennis.hamilton@acm.org
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 <
samuel.rose@gmail.com> 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
<
dennis.hamilton@acm.org> 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
>
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> Does P2PF own the subdomain
p2p.foundation.net ?
>
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