Comments on: Tips for Eastern European webmasters http://www.eministrynotes.com/2007/03/28/tips-for-eastern-european-webmasters/ A place to record notes on effective web ministry Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:43:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Jerry http://www.eministrynotes.com/2007/03/28/tips-for-eastern-european-webmasters/#comment-35314 Jerry Wed, 28 Mar 2007 17:01:44 +0000 http://www.eministrynotes.com/2007/03/28/tips-for-eastern-european-webmasters/#comment-35314 As the Eastern European Internet Ministry Coordinator for CCC, I can say we have these issues covered. The only experience we have had with things like this was when someone cybersquatted on our domains. While we were developing mirstudentov.com, someone managed to grab mirstudentov.org and .net, even though we had purchased those domains. We had failed to specify a DNS name server for them, so someone added DNS entries for them on their own. The result was that anytime you searched on "mirstudentov" it would bring up two other sites sitting on .net and .org - both of which were advertising other commercial sites. It was easy to shut down as soon as we noticed it. As the Eastern European Internet Ministry Coordinator for CCC, I can say we have these issues covered. The only experience we have had with things like this was when someone cybersquatted on our domains.

While we were developing mirstudentov.com, someone managed to grab mirstudentov.org and .net, even though we had purchased those domains. We had failed to specify a DNS name server for them, so someone added DNS entries for them on their own.

The result was that anytime you searched on “mirstudentov” it would bring up two other sites sitting on .net and .org - both of which were advertising other commercial sites.

It was easy to shut down as soon as we noticed it.

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