Re: [ga] The Network Solutions contribution to international terror

["William S. Lovell" <wsl@cerebalaw.com>]

(See below)

William X Walsh wrote:

> Sunday, Sunday, December 02, 2001, 2:57:42 PM, William S. Lovell wrote:
>
> > These are pages on which Hamas and the Qassam Brigades
> > take credit for such things as the latest atrocity against a bunch
> > of young civilians in Israel, and which Network Solutions hosts
> > in order that such obscenities can be disseminated to the world.
>
> >      Administrative Contact, Billing Contact:
> >         Sadaqa, Ziyad  (ZK30)  salamnet@AOL.COM
> >         Salam
> >         512 Cedar Bend Cir #104
> >         Orlando, FL 32825
> >         407-719-0460
>
> This is the actual registrant.
>
> And NSI is not hosting it, they are simply the registrar of record.
>
> The host of the site is usually the tech contact and/or dns provider
> (but not always).
>
>      NS.HOST4U.NET                209.150.128.30
>      NS2.HOST4U.NET               209.150.129.3
>
> host4u.net is the hostname used for providing nameservice to the many
> resellers of the OLM.Net wholesale webhosting service.  So OLM.Net is
> the actual host, though the company that actually takes money from the
> registrant for the hosting is most likely one of their many, many
> resellers.

Well, that may well be, William; you know more about these things than
I do. But on my site cerebalaw.com, for domain name servers one finds
the following in a Network Solutions WHOIS:

     Domain servers in listed order:

     COMPASS.OREGONVOS.NET        159.121.170.2
     HP-OPEN.OPEN.ORG             199.2.104.1

There is some source of confusion when domain name
servers are shown as NS whatever rather than DNS
whatever -- I'm quite sure I've seen where NS does not
mean Name Server but Network Solutions,   In mine as
shown above, for which Network Solutions is indeed the
registrar of record (who else?), there is no NS.

But in any case, as internet inept as I may be, the question
remains, has Network Solutions accepted money for which
it provides a service to Hamas, whereby Hamas gets to
glorify its atrocities?  In other words, when that reseller
collects the money for the registration, what, if anything,
ends up in the coffers of Network Solutions?

The next question, of course, since the provision of internet
services is one of the means of "supporting terrorism" that
the FBI has specified, is not your assumed reseller and/or
OLM.NET supporting terrorism? (This one happens to
affect Israel instead of the U.S., but I'm sure U. S.
examples could be found, and I make no distinction when
it comes to the slaughter of innocent civilians of another
country -- it falls within the rubric of international terrorism.)

Bill Lovell



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