[NA-Discuss] Fwd: Name.com hijacking subdomains

[Joly MacFie]

Oh, they admit it alright.

http://www.name.com/blog/general/domains/2012/01/pro-tip-how-to-get-rid-of-that-pesky-parking-page/


On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 5:27 PM, Garth Bruen <gbruen at knujon.com> wrote:

> That should be easy to test
>
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> From: Anthony Zeoli <az at digitalstrategyworks.com>
> Date: Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 7:53 PM
> Subject: [newtech-1] Name.com hijacking subdomains
> To: newtech-1 at meetup.com
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> Hi everyone,
>
> One of our old NYTM members, Jonathan Vanasco (who doesn't post much
> anymore, if at all) asked me to report this out to the group.
>
> If you're using Name.com, you should be aware that if you have not
> actively set your subdomains to return null or redirect to your main
> domain, it seems that Name.com is redirecting all subdomains to their
> servers. I believe if someone types in a subdomain on your domain and
> spells it wrong, they're going to get taken to a Name.com page.
>
> Jonathan asked me to raise this on the list so everyone is aware.
>
> See more on this here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5299534
>
> I'm not 100% clear on this - there's so much in the thread to read, but
> from my understanding of it, if you have a domain registered at Name.com,
> they're privately making sure that if anyone types in a subdomain
> incorrectly, it will revert to them and not you, making people think your
> site might be down, when it's not.
>
> The link may or may not have solutions to this issue. I'm kinda busy
> tonight, so I haven't vetted this thoroughly enough - but wanted to put it
> out there so if you're a Name.com customer, you can check into this
> yourself and see how their redirects on your domain affect you.
>
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