[Coco] bogus WhoIs complaint

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at gmail.com
Sun Jun 13 23:34:25 EDT 2010


On Sunday 13 June 2010, Sean wrote:

>>>>register with donotcall.gov

>>>>then you will have legal recourse if "phone spammers" do call your

>>>> cell.

>>>

>>>That doesn't even remotely look like a government web site.

>>

>> Put a www. in front of it, somebody might be domain squatting on the

>> plain address.

>

>That's not how it works. If you own something.com, nobody can use

>other prefixes for it. It's the site owner's responsibility to make

>sure the DNS entries go to the right place, point www.something.com

>and just something.com to the same IP.


Maybe in most locales, but I have seen it make a difference too many times
to make that sort of a blanket statement.

In any event, that is the correct site.

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