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Earth to fleabay ! Earth to fleabay ! Time to wakey uppy !!


Yup, Mark Monitor. Very professional, great management. I'll have you guys doing my work any day now ....

the stuff you get up to, hamei!

The is neither Googles nor MarkMonitors fault. What you did is querying your whois server for "*google.com*" and some people with no life or a poor sense of humor have registered something that matches this expression. And for Amazon, Yahoo, etc etc.

The problem is how you parse this information (or fail to, actually ) See how each of the *google.com* results has a different whois server? The whois result you were expecting is this one:

That is, unless you're interested in that swinging sh*t

C'mon, you're taking all the fun out of it

I still wouldn't consider this much in the way of "brand protection" if every kindergartener on the planet can take you "brand" and stick it in front of *.poopooface.org

You must be aware there's a huge issue with abuse of "cousin domains" or "sister domains" -- domains registered deliberately because they look like or are a slight misspelling of a legit domain. My financial sector employer has a portfolio of thousands of these domains, which were either "defensive" registrations, or taken from bad actors during legal proceedings. Not unusual for a large bank to own tens of thousands.

So far I haven't run across any serious attempts to limit what people can do within their domain, like bill.gates.smokes.banana.peels.on.4chan.net, but all it takes is one bored/creative attorney...

PS - If your domain is being abused by phishers, have a look at DMARC - the biggest mailbox providers like MAGY (Microsoft, AOL, Google, and Yahoo), including NetEase in China and Mail.ru in Russia, have implemented DMARC checks to protect their customers. The blocking policies are most useful for larger operations with specifically customer-facing domains, because mailing lists and other forwarding that regular folks do would be impacted. But any domain owner can use it to request reports about what mail the big receivers see using their domain. Interesting stuff, where previously you might not have known that 32,768 messages a day were being sent to GMail using your domain from a particular machine in Romania. So you get that in aggregate reports, and some receivers will send you per-message details like the headers, URLs inside the message, and other interesting stuff if you want it.

The standard is open, and the plan is to turn it over to the IETF later this year.

It's sad because the Internet now is totally different than it was twenty years ago ... I'd personally like to see commercial uses of the net totally banned but that's not going to happen

So the next best thing may be something like the fruitcakes in Beijing do now : to register a *.cn domain you have to jump through hoops. You *must* have a license and it *must* match the domain name and they require a person to be responsible. No hiding behind corporate "personhood."

If you look at any Chinese websites that use a *.cn domain, they have a little ICP license number displayed somewhere on the front page. If you don't have that it's bye-bye birdy, site gets downed. With their incredible efficiency, the fifty ip's next to it on either side and the entire hosting provider probably get shut down, too

Can't say that I like this but Google has ruined the Internet anyhow, maybe strict controls like this would be an improvement. At least we don't have that useless fucking facebook clogging up everything.

They would have to be controls designed to benefit the country tho, not to benefit the mnc asshats. Good luck with that

Seems legit.