> Its amazing how these sleazy low life take up ex used domains like that.
Not long ago the domain "gildasclub.com", which had been used for a benefit
organization for women stricken with cancer and founded in the name of Gilda
Radner (well known comedian who died of cancer, & wife of Gene Wilder), had
its domain registration lapse. A porn shop that was outside of the US
picked it up rather quickly. Meanwhile, a local business had sent an eMail
newsletter out to several thousand customers, and in that eMail was a link
to goldasclub.com. I got the call from the owner's wife late one night,
with her crying hysterically about how someone hacked their eMails, and how
it had to be stopped.
Well, gildasclub.com was taken over quite legally, and by a non-USA
operation (it is back in use now by the Gilda Radner Foundation again,
likely after someone paid an extortion fee). So nothing could be done
there. The link to the site was embedded inside the eMail itself, and the
eMails had already been sent out, so nothing could be done there either. I
got the owner of the web hosting company on the line in a conference call
with myself and the owners of the business, and tried to explain there was
nothing we could do reactively, other than send an eMail of apology to all
the newsletter recipients. But on a Go Forward basis, clearly we had to
check domains out before linking them. And the eMail should have linked
users to the business' own web site, and in their web site they could have
had a link to gildasclub.com. If the site was taken over by unsavory folks
one only would have to kill or redirect the unwanted link to a new
location - problem solved.
All I know is I am glad nobody had blamed me for the errant eMail going out
with a bad link (I was not involved in any of that campaign), and the world
did not come to an end as the owners had anticipated. I/We learned a
valuable lesson re: the merits of not embedding links within an eMail that
is going to be distributed massively, unless that link is going to a known
good site. Uggghhh.
For the record, the porn site was one of the most disgusting things I had
seen, lot of "conventional" porn, and links to a child ("young tenders" I
think it was referred as being) porn site. And, of course, plenty of
spyware as a payload came along for the ride. It took me about an hour to
clean up the PCs belonging to the owners. I wonder who cleaned up the PCs
for all the folks who received the eMail and inadvertently got sent to that
site. Wicked stuff...
Gil
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Allen
> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 5:08 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: http://reportlistener.com/
>
>
> Its amazing how these sleazy low life take up ex used domains like that.
> Happened to my theatre group web site so the kids not knowing I
> had released
> the domain due to lack of interest went to a porn site. How a
> theatre group
> with a .co.uk address should be considered for porn I don't know.
> Allen
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of Ed Leafe
> Sent: 26 February 2008 11:09
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: http://reportlistener.com/
>
> On Feb 26, 2008, at 4:02 AM, Ajoy Khaund wrote:
>
> > This URL took me to a page which sells Valium Online without
> > prescription.
> >
> > Can anybody double check & confirm.
>
> I let that domain name expire due to lack of interest. The site was
> receiving almost no traffic. Same thing for taskpane.com.
>
> You can go to http://reportlistener.leafe.com or
> http://taskpane.leafe.com
> instead.
>
> -- Ed Leafe
>
>
>
>
>
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