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

[Dennis E. Hamilton]

It is willful with respect to foundation.com but not p2p.foundation.com.  If you use any *.foundation.com you will get the same result. 

It's a wide net.  How did you happen to fall into it?

 I suspect that foundation.com is a relatively valuable property and it is being squatted on for the purpose of making a good sale of the lease at some point.

 - Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Michel Bauwens [mailto:michelsub2004 at gmail.com] 
Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2011 17:57
To: P2P Foundation mailing list
Cc: Samuel Rose; dennis.hamilton at 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 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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