Re: [ga] Court Shuts Down '.Usa' Internet Address Scam

["L. Gallegos" <jandl@jandl.com>]

It is interesting.  TLD Networks is the company operated by Goolnik, 
who was the individual who "duplicated" the .USA and .GOD TLDs.  
However, he never had operational servers so that they would resolve.  The
holders of those original TLDs pursued the issue legally as well.  The FTC
went after Goolnik because fo the spam and deceptive practices as well as
the fact that the domains did not resolve.  The original TLDs operated by
ADNS and PCCF are still going well and the domains resolve as they always
have.  Nether one does any spamming and both are clearly disclaimed as
being in roots other than the USG.

Thanks, Danny, for bringing up the deceptive practices of some 
scammers out there.

Leah


On 11 Mar 2002, at 12:20, DannyYounger@cs.com wrote:

> http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=technologynews&StoryID=68590
> 8
> 
> Excerpt: 
> 
> A U.S. court shut down a Web site that capitalized on post-September 11
> patriotic fervor to sell fake Internet domain names with suffixes such as
> ".usa" and ".brit," the Federal Trade Commission said on Monday. 
> 
> A variety of defendants based in the U.S. and the United Kingdom launched
> an aggressive junk e-mail campaign that urged Internet users to sign up for
> the star-spangled addresses after the hijacking attacks of Sept. 11, the
> FTC said. 
> 
> The messages linked to a Web site, (http://www.dotusa.com), that urged
> users to reserve addresses such as www.surfin.usa that did not work, the
> FTC said. 
> 
> "These spam scammers conned consumers in two ways. They sent deceptive
> spam, and they sold worthless Web addresses from their Web sites," said J.
> Howard Beales, head of the FTC's consumer-protection division, in a
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