[Hidden-tech] Web URL hijack, update

[ussailis at shaysnet.com]

Here's what happened.

I was not hijacked, but the URL registeration payment was not credited to
my account.

Of course the URLs were paid for at least a month before the due date, more
than 2 months before the cutoff date. There are two problems that occurred
because of the way URL registrations are now renewed.

1. The actual registertation passes thru several vendors. The guy that does
the service for me is a reseller for another, higher level, registrar, who,
it turn, is also a reseller for a higher level registrar. I believe the
final registrar for my URLs is Enom. Somehow they are related to Tucows.

They were paid some time ago for 4 URL renewals. They renewed one,
www.rf-wireless.com. The rest fell thru the cracks on their end.

Now here is the second issue...

2. Whois doesn't work they way it did. In the past doing a whois search
brought up all the current data for a URL...any URL, registered thru
anybody. 

Now a whois search must be done at the web site of the final feeder in this
registation chain to bring up current correct data. A gereral whois brings
up data, but not necessarily current data. 

The business that I use to renew URL registration checks every URL they
rebew with a general web whois search. They just discovered this problem,
and now are checking all their clients.

Enom fixed their mistake. Quickly. I don't know how much business I might
have lost, but I have learned to watch this stuff more carefully.
Fortunatelly my businss is not a many clients, each client providing a
small amount business, but rather it is few clients / year, each
representing a substantial amount of business. So I probably haven't lost
any.

My thanks to all who responded, esp to the fellow who called. He also
noticed the problem. 

To all those with business URLs, I can say, find out who the top feeder in
this registration business is for your web site, and check the info for
your URL. 

I am looking into a 10 year renewal. By then I'll be so old I won't care
anymore.

Jim Ussailis
jim at nationalwireless.com





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Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 11:50:20 -0500
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Subject: [Hidden-tech] Web URL hijack


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Something new to me, and perhaps something for us to watch out for...

My URL has been hijacked. There is a new site up on it
(www.nationalwireless and www.national-wireless.com). The new site is
strictly advertising. It pretends to be a search engine, but it only
searchs among a limited number of advertisers.

As I understand it the "pointing" to the URL has been changed. It appears
that www.NuSeek.com is also involved. I have found several other emails
complaining about this.

For us that are very busy, we should take (find?) the time to check our
websites. I have no idea how long this has been going on, nor how many
clients I may have lost.

If any are interested, www.rf-wireless.com is a representation of my real
site. The other two 'pointed' to this one.

Jim Ussailis
ussailis at shaysnet.com
ussailis at verizon.net

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