See www.whitehouse.com -scott

From owner-nanog@merit.edu Mon May 11 15:59 EDT 1998 To: Joe Provo - Network Architect <jprovo@ma.ultranet.com> cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: Possible login/password grabbing ploy Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 11:28:11 -0700 From: Amit Gupta <ag@asha.Eng.Sun.COM> Sender: owner-nanog@merit.edu Content-Type> : > text> Content-Length: 1100

Or maybe these are also the "adult site operators"?

At a conference I tried accessing ESPN web site :) by typing in the URL - typed sportszone.espnet.com by mistake (instead of espnet.sportszone.com) - and was surprised by the "Click if you are over 18" message... have heard from others that several other mis-spellings also lead to similar sites.

Any trademark protection ("webmarks?") available to the folks who run these popular sites?

-amit

:> I have found that most of the common mis-spellings of our domain name :> have been registered with the Internic by a company named Americaoffline.

:Yup. They've been busy registering dropped-letter variants of many :folks. All the zones I've looked at are merely wildcard A records, not :purposeful hosts. I was sorely disappointed that :http://www.americaoffline.com/ contains no references to malicous nor :humourous stuff. Personally, I was hoping for large-scale lampooning.

:Nothing at the real provider's home base, INSTANET.COM, reveals anything :of interest. Some kook thinking he can auction off typo domains?