[P2P-F] please note hijacking of our address ...

[Dennis E. Hamilton]

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: p2p-foundation-bounces at lists.ourproject.org [mailto:p2p-foundation-bounces at lists.ourproject.org] On Behalf Of Samuel Rose
Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2011 07:24
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Subject: Re: [P2P-F] please note hijacking of our address ...

Does P2PF own the subdomain p2p.foundation.net ?

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