(from a rather well-known securitygeek who desires to remain anonymous in his comment here......rf)
<snip> A year or two ago I log into my networksolutions account to modify some setting or other, and I find... 2 new domains that I didn't register, paid for with a credit card from a credit card company I've never dealt with (so they didn't defraud me). They were registered by someone in a foriegn country using my account (I had a randomly generated password so I doubted that my account had been broken into, and even if it had this makes no sense, I mean why break into an account when you can just use made up information?). I thought this rather odd and assumed it was a network solutions database issue or something. A week or so later one of the domains had been removed, I assumed the other one would be as well. But it never was. So after about 6 months I figured the credit card used hadn't been defrauded (because you think the charge would have been reversed and the domain dropped right?) so I changed the domain to point from the DNS servers it was using (looked like a spammer site) to mine. Nobody complained, which is odd. I then started using the domain, why not. It's registered for 7 years and done as a private listing which makes it nice for anonymous email. The point is... there are some severe problems with networksolutions and domain name registering. I doubt it will change and personally I hope it stays a mess because I like not having to put a "real" phone number in and so on (like I need more telemarketing spam). I just wish I'd gotten in on this racket sooner (registering names like poker.com....). -Anonymous You are a subscribed member of the infowarrior list. Visit www.infowarrior.org for list information or to unsubscribe. This message may be redistributed freely in its entirety. Any and all copyrights appearing in list messages are maintained by their respective owners.
