Re: [ga] How to hijack a Domain Name

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

Also nothing in Google showing old links to the domain name, and
nothing in USENET which is commonly used in the Arabic world
especially for providing information about websites.

I think this whole thing was a hoax, and I've told the "reporter" as
much.

Sunday, August 11, 2002, 6:41:52 AM, William X Walsh wrote:


> 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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