Re: [registrars] Who "affordable-domains.com" is.

["Ivan Vachovsky" <ivan@aplus.net>]

Aplus.Net certifies hereby that Aplus.Net has nothing to do with any of the
aforementioned operations and schemes.

Aplus.Net is a difersified Service Provider and offers among other things
dedicated servers, virtual private servers and co-location services. Any one
of these can potentialy be a host of such operations.

Aplus.Net is ICANN accredited Registrar. It registers domain names under the
Names4Ever brand and does not have any other brands or web sites dedicated
to domain names registration. We have hundreds of Resellers trough our
Reseller programm. I checked about this particular reseller and they do not
appear to be resellers of Aplus.Net.

Aplus.Net has raised many times the issue of watchdog organization within
ICANN, at ICANN meetings and at this forum. Unfortunately ICANN opted to
mushroom many other bodies, but not this one. With this being the case, we
have to resort to courts to resolve this and similar issues. Aplus.Net will
fully cooperate in such proceedings.

Ivan Vachovsky,
CEO Aplus.Net

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Nagle" <nagle@downside.com>
Cc: <registrars@dnso.org>; <ivan@abac.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 01, 2002 10:42 AM
Subject: Re: [registrars] Who "affordable-domains.com" is.


>    It gets wierder.  See
>
> http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/registrars/Arc01/msg02287.html
>
> in which Ivan Vachovsky, the CEO of Aplus.Net, complains
> about the "affordable-domains" spam overloading his systems.
>
> It turns out that his company hosts the thing.
>
> "affordable-domains.com" is on a server in China, but
> their "mother site", as their FAQ (at
> "http://www.affordable-domains.com/faq.html") says, is
> "easy-internic.com".  The forms on the "affordable-domains.com"
> actually submit to the IP address of "easy-internic.com".
> And both sites have much the same content, except for slightly
> different graphics.  The FAQs match word for word.
>
> Who hosts "easy-internic.com"?   Here's a traceroute:
>
>   Tracing route to easy-internic.com [66.175.45.95]
>   over a maximum of 30 hops:
>    ...
>    15    abac-gw.customer.alter.net [157.130.240.102]
>    16    core01.san-diego.abac.net [216.55.138.242]
>    17    easy-internic.com [66.175.45.95]
>
> So ABAC hosts "easy-internic.com".  ABAC is in
> San Diego, California, and does business as
> "aplus.net".
>
> Now the question is whether ABAC is unwittingly
> hosting "easy-internic.com", or whether they're an
> active participant in this operation.
>
> It's worth noting that "easy-internic.com" asks
> for a credit card number without disclosing their
> business name and address first, as required by
> California law.  That's a criminal offense in
> California; you can't run an anonymous business,
> and there are specific Internet disclosure requirements.
> Since they're hosted in California, California
> law applies, even though they do give a mailing
> address which is a Mail Boxes Etc. in Salt Lake
> City, UT.
>
> John Nagle
> Downside.com
>
>