Re: [ga] How to hijack a Domain Name

[William X Walsh <william@wxsoft.info>]

It is also worth noting that web.archive.org shows no cached snapshots
of alneda.com.  I wonder if it was ever an Al Qaeda website to start
with.

Sunday, August 11, 2002, 1:25:48 PM, steinle@smartvia.de wrote:

> "Earlier this year, Al Neda was being hosted on a server farm in Kuala
> Lumpur. Messner believes the United States government pressured the
> Malaysians to drop www.alneda.com from its site a few months ago.

> When al-Qaida tried to move the domain, Messner struck. "After they pushed
> it out of the Malaysian registry but before it entered the Indian registry,
> in that split second the domain became exposed, and Snapback intercepted the
> transfer and put my info in there," Messner said."
> http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,54455,00.html?tw=wn_ascii

> There is something wrong. It looks like there was only a change in hosting
> services and maybe a change in the domain name registrar. For these changes
> there are no alterations needed in the ownership of the domain name. For
> change of hosting services simly change nameservers via "domain name control
> panel" or let the registrar do it for you. And if this would be true that
> one can hijack a domain name during a registrar transfer no one would
> transfer a domain name. But there are thousands of tansfers everyday.
> I have not use snapnames until now, but what I heared from others Snapnames
> is not that fast as claimed by Messner. And doesn't Snapnames only work with
> expired domain names which were dropped?
> As far as I know there a no Indian and no Malaysian registries for .com. ;-)
> it is NetSol. Maybe the editor meant registrar.
> According to NetSol whois the registrar of alneda.com is Directi.com, which
> is an India based registrar.
> http://www.netsol.com/cgi-bin/whois/whois?STRING=alneda.com&SearchType=do&ST
> RING2.x=11&STRING2.y=8

> Okay, there was a registrar transfer. But if it is true that one can
> intercept a registrar trasfer the whole registrar transfer procedure should
> be revised!


> Simon Steinle


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Genie Livingstone" <genie@magi.net>
> To: <ga@dnso.org>
> Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2002 9:31 PM
> Subject: Re: [ga] How to hijack a Domain Name


>> > Saturday, August 10, 2002, 6:45:03 PM, Joop Teernstra wrote:
>> >
>> > > http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,54455,00.html?tw=wn_ascii
>>
>> Saturday, August 10, 2002 7:30 PM William X Walsh wrote
>> > His story sounds highly suspicious to me.  It is inconsistent and
>> > inaccurate with how things run.
>> >
>> > I'd by highly skeptical of this story, or at least how it is being
>> > portrayed.
>> >
>>
>> I fully agree with William, if you actually go to the site and click
>> through on the logo,
>> there is a 'nice' pop under advertisement for some porn
>> sites/affiliates/dial up
>>
>> It smells of a marketing art ... the tech details in the story do not
>> make sense
>>
>> Genie Livingstone
>>
>>
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