Finally, finally. Several fake domain names being used during the ticket scams of these Olympic games have been mentioned at page '2008 Beijing Olympics Ticket Scams' http://www.beijingticketscam.com/Contact_Us/
Juha-Matti Paul Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] kirjoitti: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Via The International Herald Tribune (AP). > > [snip] > > China has banned the use of its Olympic gold medalists' names as Internet > addresses by anyone but the athletes themselves. > > The move announced Tuesday came after companies registered the names of > winning Chinese athletes at the 2004 Athens Olympics as Web addresses, > prompting an outcry by sports fans. > > "The move will better protect the interests of the Olympic gold medalists," > said an official of the government's China Internet Network Information > Center, quoted by the state Xinhua News Agency. It identified him only by > the surname Hu. > > The Chinese government controls the awarding of Web addresses using the > ".cn" suffix but has no power over those assigned in other countries. > > The General Administration of Sport gave the agency a list of Chinese > Olympians ahead of the games and registered all possible domain names using > their names, Xinhua said. > > [snip] > > More: > http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/08/20/business/AS-TEC-China-Olympic-Add > resses.php > > China is setting a very good example in this case -- there are currently > about 300 registered domain names that contain "Michael Phelps" in their > name, and I'm quite sure that not all of them are "above-board", so to > speak: > > http://domain-search.domaintools.com/?q=michael+phelps > > - - ferg > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) > > wj8DBQFIq9Flq1pz9mNUZTMRAlc7AKDR9JfBzxvr5Wbyve0SW/Tuk9IzAgCgmTRO > JsXeXt1jLZZ7KPjIMZp3XfM= > =JJIj > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > -- > "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson > Engineering Architecture for the Internet > fergdawg(at)netzero.net > ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ > _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
