The opendarwin .com debacle

[Scott Haneda]

On Oct 22, 2009, at 12:09 PM, James Kyle wrote:

> Given the guy is unscrupulous, there's no telling what kind of  
> current version of google bombing he might be using to boost his  
> rankings.

I do not think much, I think he is riding the train of strong rankings  
from years ago, and no other site has challenged his ranking, so he  
just holds onto it.

> Are there any legal issues involved with just claiming authority on  
> the domain on my dns servers and redirecting to a page that informs  
> the user of its lack of affiliation with the macports project proper  
> and then providing links to both or some such?

Your DNS, do as you see fit.  If you were a root server, then I  
suspect you would have an issue, as NetSol did with their NXDOMAIN  
thing a while back.

> My dns server could potentially have a rather far reaching impact.


I was going to do the same, though my DNS server does not have such  
far reaching impact, but more out of principle.  Perhaps enough pokes  
at openDNS and and the malware url checking service Safari and FireFox  
use, could get his domain listed as a scam site, which is very much is  
as it asks for money.
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