yes, some form of spamlinking to obtain visits and present ads I guess .... as there is actually no content ...<br><br>but the attempt is clearly willfull ..<br><br>Michel<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 1:48 AM, Samuel Rose <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:samuel.rose@gmail.com">samuel.rose@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">p2p foundation doesn't own <a href="http://foundation.net" target="_blank">foundation.net</a> so it is actually not a<br>
hijack, but a kind of spoofing where they are using a domain that<br>
looks close to, but is not exactly your actual domain<br>
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On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton<br>
<<a href="mailto:dennis.hamilton@acm.org">dennis.hamilton@acm.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> 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 <<a href="http://nfoWorks.org" target="_blank">http://nfoWorks.org</a>> is targeted at my actual web site as <<a href="http://nfoworks.nfocentrale.com" target="_blank">http://nfoworks.nfocentrale.com</a>> and that maps onto <<a href="http://nfocentrale.com/nfoworks/" target="_blank">http://nfocentrale.com/nfoworks/</a>>. �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.<br>
><br>
> The address has not been hijacked. �The address <a href="http://p2p.foundation.net" target="_blank">p2p.foundation.net</a> is a different address. �If <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">p2pfoundation.net</a> had been routed to an unauthorized place, that would be hijacking.<br>
><br>
> What it looks like in the current instance is that the holder of <a href="http://foundation.net" target="_blank">foundation.net</a> 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.<br>
><br>
> Michel, did you see a scraped version of the <<a href="http://p2pFoundation.net/Category:Peergovernance" target="_blank">http://p2pFoundation.net/Category:Peergovernance</a>> page or did you see a version of the page that now appears, the one with the same content �from <<a href="http://foundation.net" target="_blank">http://foundation.net</a>> with possibly-different formatting?<br>
><br>
> �- Dennis<br>
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> Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2011 07:24<br>
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> Subject: Re: [P2P-F] please note hijacking of our address ...<br>
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> Does P2PF own the subdomain <a href="http://p2p.foundation.net" target="_blank">p2p.foundation.net</a> ?<br>
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