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[ga] FYI: Alleged links between WTC attacks and domain names
Investigators Can Access Internet Domain Data
By Jeff Johnson
CNSNews.com Congressional Bureau Chief
September 20, 2001
The company that maintains the registry of .com, .org, and .net
Internet domain names may have information on the identities of
individuals who registered web addresses that a counter-terrorism
expert believes may have foretold last Tuesday's terrorist attacks
on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
CNSNews.com first reported Wednesday that Dr. Neil Livingstone,
CEO of Global Options, LLC, a Washington, D.C.-based counter-
terrorism and investigations company, believed the terrorists
who orchestrated last week's attacks in New York and Washington,
or their co-conspirators, may have registered as many as 17
Internet domain names that could have tipped-off authorities
as early as last summer.
Patrick Burns, spokesman for VeriSign, acknowledged that his
company does archive some of the data on expired registrations,
though the public does not routinely request such information.
The VeriSign subsidiary responsible for domain name registrations
is Network Solutions, Inc. He added that the Internet Corporation
for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) does not require Network
Solutions to maintain any records on expired addresses.
As of late Wednesday, VeriSign would not release either the
identity of the person or people who registered the domain names,
or the identity of the company or companies that handled the
registrations.
VeriSign is willing to help investigators, according to Burns,
but does not want to fuel speculation about the domain names on
Livingstone's list.
[...]
The list of domain names provided to Livingstone by an industry
insider included:
"august11horror.com"
"august11terror.com"
"horrorinamerica.com"
"horrorinnewyork.com"
"nycterroriststrike.com"
"pearlharborinmanhattan.com"
"terrorattack2001.com"
"towerofhorror.com"
"tradetowerstrike.com"
"worldtradecenter929.com"
"worldtradetowerattack.com"
"worldtradetowerstrike.com"
"wterroristattack2001.com"
[...]
(http://www.cnsnews.com/Nation/archive/200109/NAT20010920c.html)
Best regards,
/// Alexander
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