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[Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If we do this, make sure not to link to the bad domain.  Linking, usually,
gives the destination link higher status to places like Google.

On Sat, Dec 5, 2015, 2:48 PM easyw <easyw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I would also put an alert on kicad-pcb.org warning of different domain
> extensions and on the forum...
>
>
> On 5 December 2015 20:48:00 CET, Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>>
>> I think fabulous is their domain registrar, not the actual owner.  It
>> used to be that actual owners had to put their contact information in the
>> whois information, but it was scraped and people sent too much garbage to
>> domain owners based on that information, so I guess nowadays basically
>> every registrar puts their own information and "forwards" information on to
>> the actual owner.
>>
>> I did a few searches and it looks like Fabulous.com has suspended domains
>> before because of spam, so this may be something we can actually handle--if
>> we want to.  I can see it going good or bad, but if do we do choose to
>> "take action", alerting Fabulous.com that one of the domains they
>> registered is scam/malware might be a good idea.
>>
>> Adam Wolf
>>
>> On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 12/5/2015 2:17 PM, Adam Wolf wrote:
>>> > What do folks normally do for things like this?  Do we need a KiCad
>>> > trademark before we can start rattling cages at webhosts?
>>>
>>> I have no idea what the protocol is here.  If anyone has any useful
>>> advice, I'm open to suggestion.  Should we at least alert the ironically
>>> named fabulous.com that they are serving malware under kicad.com or are
>>> they a shady outfit by trade?  How would we even find out?
>>>
>>> >
>>> > Their registrar is fabulous.com <http://fabulous.com>, and their
>>> > acceptable use policy is
>>> > here:
>>> http://www.fabulous.com/informationcenter/index.htm?formdata%5Bqid%5D=1533
>>> >
>>> > It says their services must not be used to "send or distribute any
>>> > virus, worm, trojan or other malicious code".
>>>
>>> Apparently they forgot to read their own service agreement :). Maybe
>>> their service has been compromised. Sigh! One more thing to deal with
>>> that really doesn't help move KiCad along.
>>>
>>> >
>>> > Adam Wolf
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 12:09 PM, Mark Roszko <mark.roszko@xxxxxxxxx
>>> > <mailto:mark.roszko@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >     Just a warning, the domain (kicad.com <http://kicad.com>) which we
>>> >     don't control now
>>> >     distributes malware and scams!
>>> >
>>> >     http://i.imgur.com/4GQz7jL.png
>>> >     http://i.imgur.com/2OzKO1O.png
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >     Kind of sad because this can be fucking over some potential KiCad
>>> >     users. It seems to attack Chrome and Firefox users.
>>> >
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