Re: Apparent Fraud: Domain Name Survey

[Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>]

On Fri, 29 Nov 1996, Donald E. Eastlake 3rd wrote:

> I suspect his guy is just abusing his ITU email address to pass himself off
> as an ITU Reseasrch Assistant while abusing the net with unsolicted email to
> drum up business and that the ITU and hkstar.com should cancel his accounts
> immediately and the ITU look into their policies on opening accounts for 
> people as name@itu.ch. If the ITU wants to set up mail accounts for 
> non-official people, maybe it should be name@unofficial.itu.ch or 
> something...   (I'm contacting other parties by direct mail.)

Dig deeper. Have a look at http://www.itu.int/TIES/ties-un.htm

$ nslookup -q=mx itu.ch       
Server:  sidhe.memra.com
Address:  10.10.10.1
 
itu.ch  preference = 10, mail exchanger = sigma.itu.ch
sigma.itu.ch    internet address = 156.106.128.30

$ telnet sigma.itu.ch 25
Trying 156.106.128.30...
Connected to sigma.itu.ch.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 sigma.itu.ch -- Server ESMTP (PMDF V5.0-6 #16074)
expn daniel.chun
250 <CHUN@SEIT.ITU.CH>
quit
221 Bye received. Goodbye.

SEIT is ties spelled backwards. Conceivably it is the same name translated
to French.

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Sure sounds like a sleazy marketing deal to me. Yet another member of the
great Internet goldrush of '96.

Michael Dillon                   -               ISP & Internet Consulting
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