On Tue, 26 Jun 2012, Paul Graydon wrote:
On 06/26/2012 11:53 AM, Mark Andrews wrote:
In message
<cadfgf67amjhr+bsdo4klpfzcyzjzw5bx0uscw_9sgrq7rz6...@mail.gmail.com>
, Eric Rosenberry writes:
Not sure where this data got injected into the system (or who knows,
perhaps it's a DNS injection attack or something), but this certainly is
not right. :-(
It's perfectly NORMAL. Just the owners of SWINGINGCOMMUNITY.COM,
BEYONDWHOIS.COM, SHQIPHOST.COM, NASHHOST.NET and UNIMUNDI.COM playing
games.
Probably a stupid question, but what do they gain by doing such?
Vanity. Poking fun at the domains in question. People have been doing it
at least 10 years, probably longer.
http://attrition.org/news/content/00-01-26.001.html
That's a page about it from 2000. So, obviously, it has been going on
more than 10 years.
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