On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote:
Someone is... or trying to, at least, watch and contact the responsible owners/registrars, but in some cases they aren't apparently eager to assist.
Some registrars are good and some are bad and without better controls being developed by ICANN, user-based reputation system will eventually come in and will be greatly despised by registrars (like many ISPs do not like RBLs) but nonetheless widely used by users.
-- Alex Rubenstein <alex@nac.net> wrote:
Shouldn't someone be watching these, though? root@sodium:~# whois paypal.com
[...]
PAYPAL.COM.SV04.COM PAYPAL.COM.LIMITSPEED.NET PAYPAL.COM
Above are hostnames under another domain that were registered as nameservers (which seems to be mostly for fun so it would show up in whois for those using less-then-smart whois clients). I don't think above names have anything to do with phishing at all since for phishing one could easily just setup host "paypal.phisherdomain.com" (without any registration in whois), but that is not widely used and a lot more common are attempts at something like paypa1.com. -- William Leibzon Elan Networks william@elan.net