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

[Phoebe Moore]

Yes, and Michel your site is far superior!
On 19 Feb 2011 18:54, "Samuel Rose" <samuel.rose at 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 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.
>>
>> 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
>> To: P2P Foundation mailing list
>> Subject: Re: [P2P-F] please note hijacking of our address ...
>>
>> Does P2PF own the subdomain p2p.foundation.net ?
>>
>> [ ... ]
>>
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