RE: [ga] UDRP dead? Is the dot-biz registry typosquatting on AT&T's trademarks?

["Jay Westerdal" <Jay@Westerdal.com>]

Looks like *.biz and *.us now resolve to looksmart pay per search service.
Was this in the registry business plan? The fact dead domains and
all non-registered domains now resolve to this page is horrible. A registry
should not do this. This causes errors left and right for DNS checking
scripts.

; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> dafdsdfsdafdsfdsafasd.biz 
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 2
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2
;; QUERY SECTION:
;;      dafdsdfsdafdsfdsafasd.biz, type = A, class = IN

;; ANSWER SECTION:
dafdsdfsdafdsfdsafasd.biz.  1M IN CNAME  ip90.chainlink.net.
ip90.chainlink.net.     6d3h28m15s IN A  209.249.107.90

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
chainlink.net.          6d23h36m2s IN NS  ns3.chainlink.com.
chainlink.net.          6d23h36m2s IN NS  ns1.chainlink.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns1.chainlink.com.      1d3h28m15s IN A  209.249.107.10
ns3.chainlink.com.      1d3h28m15s IN A  209.249.107.20

;; Total query time: 183 msec
;; FROM: homer to SERVER: default -- 216.145.1.2
;; WHEN: Tue May 20 00:44:35 2003
;; MSG SIZE  sent: 43  rcvd: 172

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ga@dnso.org [mailto:owner-ga@dnso.org]On Behalf Of John
Berryhill Ph.D. J.D.
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 12:07 AM
To: George Kirikos; ga@dnso.org
Cc: mcade@att.com
Subject: Re: [ga] UDRP dead? Is the dot-biz registry typosquatting on
AT&T's trademarks?



They are doing it in .us as well.


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