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

Sat Feb 19 19:48:39 CET 2011

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 at 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.
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> 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.
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> 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?
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>  - Dennis
>
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> Does P2PF own the subdomain p2p.foundation.net ?
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