They have hooligans in Sweden? Mike
On 10/11/07, Vicky Staubly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 11 Oct 2007, Randy wrote: > > The GoDaddy guy said all that is required is a legitimate address; > doesn't > > have to be your personal address. I would give a legitimate street > address. > > If you can tell me what legitimate societal purpose is served by ICANN > not > > only having my home address and other personal information but having > this > > available in a public registry, available for sale, then I'll consider > > putting down my home address or paying the extra cost to keep these > private > > (effectively more than doubling the domain registration cost if using > the > > GoDaddy privacy option). > > About 10 years ago, my web server was broken into by some hooligans in > (I think Sweden). I saw several connection attempts from some IP addresses > in Sweden and England. I was able to look up the domain to which these > IP addresses belonged (a University in England, and some ISP in Sweden). > By looking up the owners of the domain, I was able to let the admin in > England know that their system had been broken into, and let the ISP > in Sweden know that some of their customers were breaking the law. > > -- > Vicky Staubly http://www.steeds.com/vicky/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > ************************************************************************ > * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== > * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== > * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name > * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST > * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L > * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress > * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ************************************************************************ > * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml > * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived > ************************************************************************ > ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
