Yep, I confirm what you observed. wwwdell ---> porno URL. wwcompaque ----> map to an Ip_address: 205.187.99.19 --> Phone Book Site. wwwsun.com ----> Gambling site Ehab Hadi Northern Telecom ehabh@nortel.ca

From owner-nanog@merit.edu Thu May 14 08:35:02 1998 Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) by merit.edu (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA01981; Thu, 14 May 1998 11:25:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: by merit.edu (bulk_mailer v1.5); Thu, 14 May 1998 11:23:28 -0400 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by merit.edu (8.8.7/8.8.5) id LAA01852 for nanog-outgoing; Thu, 14 May 1998 11:23:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: from home.merit.edu (home.merit.edu [198.108.60.42]) by merit.edu (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA01845 for <nanog@merit.edu>; Thu, 14 May 1998 11:23:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from ljb@localhost) by home.merit.edu (8.8.8/merit-2.0) id LAA16312 for nanog@merit.edu; Thu, 14 May 1998 11:23:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: from nacs.net (sjsobol@devel.nacs.net [207.166.192.85]) by merit.edu (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA21788 for <nanog@merit.edu>; Wed, 13 May 1998 21:48:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from sjsobol@localhost) by nacs.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) id VAA14329; Wed, 13 May 1998 21:47:57 -0400 Message-ID: <19980513214756.61332@devel.nacs.net> Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 21:47:56 -0400 From: Steve Sobol <sjsobol@devel.nacs.net> To: steve c blair <sblair@dev.tivoli.com> Cc: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>, nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: bogon dns registrations References: <199805130719.DAA13278@db3.troy.psi.com> <support@psi.com> <199805130719.DAA13278@db3.troy.psi.com> <19980513193102.45090@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us> <199805132346.SAA24442@devmail.dev.tivoli.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88 In-Reply-To: <199805132346.SAA24442@devmail.dev.tivoli.com>; from steve c blair on Wed, May 13, 1998 at 06:47:59PM -0500 Sender: owner-nanog@merit.edu

On Wed, May 13, 1998 at 06:47:59PM -0500, steve c blair wrote:

...

so how do companies sue the internic:

wwwdell.com wwwsun.com wwwibm.com wwwcompaq.com

are just a few of the typo-happy abusers I've found this afternoon. in dell's case it was an explicit porno site.

If there is a suit, it would most likely not be against the Internic, it would be against the porn sites...

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