> "www.really-cool.alt. Now fix your systems so I can access it" > > The poor guy/gal at the other end of the line will need a really good > answer.
"Looks like your friend has been duped by some domain hijackers/phishers exploiting a DNS security hole. We've kept you safe from that perhaps your friend would like to move to us rather than the insecure ISP" > Not to mention the answers we need for the market droids... > > "Hey, I heard that Tiscali is offering more Internet than us at no > extra cost, and they make a lot of money on it too. How soon can we > start doing the same?" "I hear you can buy .tiscali for $1M so all our users plus some others will get our site instead of theirs. Unfortunately the same scam means a bunch of other people have .telenor" > This puts a lot of pressure on other European ISPs, and eventually > also North American ISPs (to make this on-topic :-) I hope the rest of > us can stand together against it. The rot started when icann hijacked . and started selling pointless gtlds, it's not surprising others want to do the same. brandon
