On Tue, 26 Jun 2012, Paul Graydon wrote:
On 06/26/2012 11:53 AM, Mark Andrews wrote:
In message <CADfGf67aMjhr+bSDo4kLpfzcyZJZw5bx0uscW_9sgrQ7rz6nsQ@mail.gmail.com> , Eric Rosenberry writes:
Not sure where this data got injected into the system (or who knows, perhaps it's a DNS injection attack or something), but this certainly is not right. :-( It's perfectly NORMAL. Just the owners of SWINGINGCOMMUNITY.COM, BEYONDWHOIS.COM, SHQIPHOST.COM, NASHHOST.NET and UNIMUNDI.COM playing games.
Probably a stupid question, but what do they gain by doing such?
Vanity. Poking fun at the domains in question. People have been doing it at least 10 years, probably longer. http://attrition.org/news/content/00-01-26.001.html That's a page about it from 2000. So, obviously, it has been going on more than 10 years. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Lewis, MCP :) | I route Senior Network Engineer | therefore you are Atlantic Net | _________ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_________