Re: [ga] Court Shuts Down '.Usa' Internet Address Scam

["L. Gallegos" <jandl@jandl.com>]

Of course they resolve.  .USA is carried by Pacroot and ORSC roots.  
I'm not sure about other roots, but those are the most comprehensive 
roots in the world anyway.  Use the right DNS settings and they will 
resolve for you.

On 11 Mar 2002, at 11:13, Rick Wesson wrote:

> 
> Leah,
> 
> I can't get to any .usa websites, how come they don't resolve?
> 
> -rick
> 
> On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, L. Gallegos wrote:
> 
> >
> > It is interesting.  TLD Networks is the company operated by Goolnik, who
> > was the individual who "duplicated" the .USA and .GOD TLDs. However, he
> > never had operational servers so that they would resolve.  The holders of
> > those original TLDs pursued the issue legally as well.  The FTC went
> > after Goolnik because fo the spam and deceptive practices as well as the
> > fact that the domains did not resolve.  The original TLDs operated by
> > ADNS and PCCF are still going well and the domains resolve as they always
> > have.  Nether one does any spamming and both are clearly disclaimed as
> > being in roots other than the USG.
> >
> > Thanks, Danny, for bringing up the deceptive practices of some
> > scammers out there.
> >
> > Leah
> >
> >
> > On 11 Mar 2002, at 12:20, DannyYounger@cs.com wrote:
> >
> > > http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=technologynews&StoryID=6
> > > 8590 8
> > >
> > > Excerpt:
> > >
> > > A U.S. court shut down a Web site that capitalized on post-September 11
> > > patriotic fervor to sell fake Internet domain names with suffixes such
> > > as ".usa" and ".brit," the Federal Trade Commission said on Monday.
> > >
> > > A variety of defendants based in the U.S. and the United Kingdom
> > > launched an aggressive junk e-mail campaign that urged Internet users
> > > to sign up for the star-spangled addresses after the hijacking attacks
> > > of Sept. 11, the FTC said.
> > >
> > > The messages linked to a Web site, (http://www.dotusa.com), that urged
> > > users to reserve addresses such as www.surfin.usa that did not work,
> > > the FTC said.
> > >
> > > "These spam scammers conned consumers in two ways. They sent deceptive
> > > spam, and they sold worthless Web addresses from their Web sites," said
> > > J. Howard Beales, head of the FTC's consumer-protection division, in a
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