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

[Michel Bauwens]

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 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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