[fpc-devel] OT: freepascal.org domain

[Tomas Hajny]

Florian Klaempfl wrote:
> ik wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I entered freepascal.org web site, and the image is what I was getting:
>> http://kanner-altman.co.il/img/tmp/fpcdomain.png
>>
>> Was there a domain hijacking
>
> Unlikely:
> Domain ID:D3406939-LROR
> Domain Name:FREEPASCAL.ORG
> Created On:23-Sep-1998 04:00:00 UTC
> Last Updated On:11-Feb-2005 16:31:12 UTC
> Expiration Date:22-Sep-2008 04:00:00 UTC
> Sponsoring Registrar:Network Solutions LLC (R63-LROR)
> Status:CLIENT TRANSFER PROHIBITED
> Registrant ID:17195710-NSI
> Registrant Name:Michael Van Canneyt
> Registrant Street1:Gemeentestraat 163
>
>> or some thing else ?
>
> DNS trouble. The main DNS server for freepascal.org had a hd failure and
> was
> reinstalled, it seems that not everything is working fine so far.

It looks as if your (= ik's) ISP uses requests to non-existing domains (or
those which look like non-existing which was the case of freepascal.org
during the failure) to promote his own domain registration (and other)
services. I wouldn't be very happy to use an ISP behaving this way...

Tomas