[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.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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