shaw wrote: <snip>
European position. DNS issues are impacting public interests especially within an intellectual property context. For one example of domain name hijacking, see the attached message.
IMHO, I think it might be in RIPE's interest to cooperate a little more with them since the issues are clearly impacting outside a normal "Net" technical context. <snip>
For your information, the same have happened in Sweden, by the company Control Alt Delete. There are perhaps more occurances of this in other countries? There was a TV show last night on the Swedish TV Channel 4 covering this issue (!), showing that this has (at least in Sweden) some public interest. The domains registered below are companies, names, events and common expressions in Swedish (and English). Cheers, //Ola Johansson, Telia TeleCom Telia Internet Whois Search Result from server rs.internic.net: Control Alt Delete (NOBELPRICE-DOM) NOBELPRICE.COM Control Alt Delete (ORIENTALHOTEL-DOM) ORIENTALHOTEL.COM Control Alt Delete (POLITIK2-DOM) POLITIK.COM Control Alt Delete (POSTBANKEN-DOM) POSTBANKEN.COM Control Alt Delete (PRILOSEC-DOM) PRILOSEC.COM Control Alt Delete (PROCTERGAMBLE-DOM) PROCTERGAMBLE.COM Control Alt Delete (PRODUCENTHUSET2-DOM) PRODUCENTHUSET.COM Control Alt Delete (RAUSING-DOM) RAUSING.COM Control Alt Delete (RENTANAME-DOM) RENTANAME.COM Control Alt Delete (REXONA-DOM) REXONA.COM Control Alt Delete (ROYALVIKING-DOM) ROYALVIKING.COM Control Alt Delete (SALMING-DOM) SALMING.COM Control Alt Delete (SEBANK-DOM) SEBANK.COM Control Alt Delete (SEMBAWANG-DOM) SEMBAWANG.COM Control Alt Delete (SKANDIABANKEN-DOM) SKANDIABANKEN.COM Control Alt Delete (SPEJSAT-DOM) SPEJSAT.COM Control Alt Delete (SPENDRUP-DOM) SPENDRUP.COM Control Alt Delete (SPINTAB-DOM) SPINTAB.COM Control Alt Delete (SPRIT-DOM) SPRIT.COM Control Alt Delete (STENBECK-DOM) STENBECK.COM Control Alt Delete (SVENSKADAGBLADET-DOM) SVENSKADAGBLADET.COM Control Alt Delete (SWEBUS-DOM) SWEBUS.COM Control Alt Delete (SWEDISHMATCH-DOM) SWEDISHMATCH.COM Control Alt Delete (BANGOLUFSEN-DOM) BANGOLUFSEN.COM Control Alt Delete (VAL3-DOM) VAL98.COM Control Alt Delete (VINGRESOR-DOM) VINGRESOR.COM Control Alt Delete (VIRTUALBONDS-DOM) VIRTUALBONDS.COM Control Alt Delete (WALLENBERG-DOM) WALLENBERG.COM Control Alt Delete (WASABANKEN-DOM) WASABANKEN.COM Control Alt Delete (X35-DOM) X2000.COM Control Alt Delete (BONNIERS-DOM) BONNIERS.COM Control Alt Delete (BOOZE3-DOM) BOOZE.COM Control Alt Delete (BRAATHENS-DOM) BRAATHENS.COM Control Alt Delete (CHINALIGHT-DOM) CHINALIGHT.COM Control Alt Delete (CITYMAIL-DOM) CITYMAIL.COM Control Alt Delete (CLOETTA-DOM) CLOETTA.COM Control Alt Delete (CONTROLALTDELETE-DOM) CONTROLALTDELETE.COM Control Alt Delete (CYBERBONDS-DOM) CYBERBONDS.COM Control Alt Delete (CYBERFRIEND-DOM) CYBERFRIEND.COM Control Alt Delete (DAGAB-DOM) DAGAB.COM Control Alt Delete (DAGENSINDUSTRI-DOM) DAGENSINDUSTRI.COM Control Alt Delete (DAGENSNYHETER-DOM) DAGENSNYHETER.COM Control Alt Delete (DEO-DOM) DEO.COM Control Alt Delete (DIGIBONDS-DOM) DIGIBONDS.COM Control Alt Delete (DOMAINTRADE-DOM) DOMAINTRADE.COM Control Alt Delete (ELLOS-DOM) ELLOS.COM Control Alt Delete (EMATELSTAR-DOM) EMATELSTAR.COM Control Alt Delete (ENATOR2-DOM) ENATOR.COM Control Alt Delete (EUROPOLITAN-DOM) EUROPOLITAN.COM Control Alt Delete (FASTIGHETER-DOM) FASTIGHETER.COM Control Alt Delete (FOLKSAM-DOM) FOLKSAM.COM Control Alt Delete (FRITIDSRESOR-DOM) FRITIDSRESOR.COM Control Alt Delete (GLOBEN-DOM) GLOBEN.COM Control Alt Delete (GODJUL-DOM) GODJUL.COM Control Alt Delete (GODMAT-DOM) GODMAT.COM Control Alt Delete (GRATTIS-DOM) GRATTIS.COM Control Alt Delete (GUD-DOM) GUD.COM Control Alt Delete (HEJ-DOM) HEJ.COM Control Alt Delete (HONSHUPAPER-DOM) HONSHUPAPER.COM Control Alt Delete (HURRA-DOM) HURRA.COM Control Alt Delete (ALLNIPPONAIRWAYS-DOM) ALLNIPPONAIRWAYS.COM Control Alt Delete (ITOYOKADO-DOM) ITOYOKADO.COM Control Alt Delete (ITPRO-DOM) ITPRO.COM Control Alt Delete (JULREA-DOM) JULREA.COM Control Alt Delete (KAMPRAD-DOM) KAMPRAD.COM Control Alt Delete (KANSKE-DOM) KANSKE.COM Control Alt Delete (KONSUM-DOM) KONSUM.COM Control Alt Delete (KURABO-DOM) KURABO.COM Control Alt Delete (NEJ-DOM) NEJ.COM