Re: [ga] FYI: Alleged links between WTC attacks and domain names

[Joanna Lane <jo-uk@rcn.com>]

Check your facts Jeff Johnson. This is a good example of irresponsible
reporting that only serves to waste valuable FBI resources. At the time of
writing:-

"august11horror.com" - available
"august11terror.com" - available
"horrorinamerica.com" - registry database inaccessible
"horrorinnewyork.com" - available
"nycterroriststrike.com" - available
"pearlharborinmanhattan.com" - registered 9/20
"terrorattack2001.com" - available
"towerofhorror.com" - available
"tradetowerstrike.com" - available
"worldtradecenter929.com" - available
"worldtradetowerattack.com" - registry database inaccessible
"worldtradetowerstrike.com" - registered 9/21
"wterroristattack2001.com" - available.

Many names were registered 9/11, as could be expected, including
nycterroristattack.com and wtradecenter911.com

Regards,
Joanna


 

on 9/21/01 7:49 AM, Alexander Svensson at alexander@svensson.de wrote:

> 
> 
> 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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