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What's up with the whois spam for google.com? (123-reg.co.uk)
13 points by zurla 5823 days ago
2 comments
philwelch 5823 days ago
This is old news, microsoft.com had the same crap for years.
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acangiano 5823 days ago
And Amazon, and Yahoo, and other popular domains. The problem is that InterNic should not sit and quietly accept this kind of abuse.
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philwelch 5823 days ago
Honestly, any regulatory scheme over subdomains would be even worse than this "abuse".
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acangiano 5823 days ago
Subdomains are not the problem. The issue is that these are registered namesevers, as pointed out by "there" below.
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jonah 5823 days ago
Often used for phishing. "Login to your account: http://google.com.adsfjk.asdf.asdfpuiasdf/soasdf.html blah blah."
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there 5823 days ago
hardly. these are registered nameservers showing in whois and have nothing to do with random subdomains.
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