Quote:
Originally posted by arsenal+Oct 6 2004, 01:43 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (arsenal @ Oct 6 2004, 01:43 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-RougeUnderoos@Oct 5 2004, 09:31 PM
Wow.
I know nothing of internet rules. Is it possible that the Soros people picked up on the blunder and within minutes secured the domain factcheck.com?
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Domain was registered on Feb 4, 2004.
Even if it was registered imediately after the slip-up, it wouldn't show up for 24-36hrs.
The other posibility is a domain hi-jacking. But I doubt that happened.
WHOIS information for factcheck.com:
[whois.domainnamesales.com]
Registrant:
Name Administration Inc. (BVI)
Box 10518 A.P.O.
Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands B.W.I.
KY
Domain name: FACTCHECK.COM
Administrative Contact:
Domain, Administrator
admin@nameadmininc.com
Box 10518 A.P.O.
Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands B.W.I.
KY
+1.345.946.6879
Technical Contact:
Domain, Administrator
admin@nameadmininc.com
Box 10518 A.P.O.
Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands B.W.I.
KY
+1.345.946.6879
Registrar of Record: DomainNameSales
Record last updated on 12-Sep-2004.
Record expires on 04-Feb-2007.
Record created on 04-Feb-2004.
Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.15X.NET 66.199.187.170
NS2.15X.NET 66.199.187.171
Domain status:
REGISTRAR-LOCK [/b][/quote]
Hijacking is a strong word.
Lots of companies buy all sorts of variants on their name to protect them from this kind of thing. Less smart ones forget to do this and this kind of thing happens.
Kinda funny really.
You'd also think that the white house would be used to this kind of tactic, with what's on their .com extension and all...
(don't go there during work hours)