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

[Rick Wesson <wessorh@ar.com>]

Leah,

I can't get to any .usa websites, how come they don't resolve?

-rick

On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, L. Gallegos wrote:

>
> 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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