2011-01-16 Murder incitement domain names becoming a fad

Setting up death threats against Julian Assange in the form of a domain name is the new fad.  Just don't try setting up "killobama.org" or "murderthepresident.com".  The site http://vivantleakers.org/ is devoted to tracking these explicit threat domain names. At the moment it lists 6 domains of the "kill Assange" variety.

Here's a summary of coverage:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/14/death-threat-domain-names_n_809174.html

From the above HuffPo item:

Go Daddy, the site which registered both killjulianassange.com and julianassangemustdie.com said there is nothing that can be done about either site while they are contentless. Go Daddy registers a domain name every .8 seconds -- any domain name can be registered and there is no human intervention.

More...

"Unless and until there is content associated with killjulianassange.com there is no way for us to know what that means," said Christine Jones, Go Daddy's General Counsel. "There's no way to judge whether there's going to be something done with that domain name or if it is going to be violating any rule."

In the past week, Go Daddy has received numerous calls regarding the death threat domain names, but the company has no intention of taking action at this time. The one exception to this, Jones said, would be a domain name death threat for the President, "if the secret service contacted us, we would almost certainly take action on those domain names."


Other links on the topic:

 (cited in HuffPo piece)
http://vivantleakers.org/

  Note: @exiledsurfer did the logo for above link - HuffPo links to his announcement here: http://www.artificialeyes.tv/node/852

http://www.boingboing.net/2011/01/14/death-threat-domain.html

  (cited in BoingBoing piece)

http://vivantleakers.org/  (direct link)

Laura L. Russwurm's blog has an item "GoDaddy is OK with killjulianassange.com"

  Laura wrote to GoDaddy to get the scoop - see her Post for the full response. In part GoDaddy said,

As your complaint addresses the issue of wording of the domain name itself, we are unable to take action at this time. The complaint either needs to be taken up with the domain name owner directly, or should be filed in a UDRP or court proceeding...

From Reuters "Wikileaks founder says  guards against death threats (Dec.4 2010)

(Reuters) - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said on Friday he and colleagues were taking steps to protect themselves after death threats following the publication of leaked U.S. diplomatic cables on their website... the 39-year-old Australian said anyone making threats against his life should be charged with incitement to murder..."The threats against our lives are a matter of public record, however, we are taking the appropriate precautions to the degree that we are able when dealing with a superpower," Assange was quoted as saying on the Guardian website.

Icerocket Search "wikileaks domain death threat":

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UPDATE:

Here's Jan Wildeboer's take on it.  This was also reported by wikinews030.

-DaveM (@dredeyedick)

 

 


 

nite bat AT&T

nitebat commented on the Huff post article as follows:

“Folks:

I did a traceroute (and other things) on killassang­e.com (did anyone else find this one?) and came up with http://99.­14.214.54/­ka/ which, up until yesterday (13/1/11), had a 'Coming Soon! Kill Assange Dot Com... Blah, blah, blah.' notice. Now it says:

'We apologize for the site that had been previously posted here, as it was created by an unauthoriz­ed hack of our web server. It does not represent our company's true intentions and is not the sort of message we wish to convey. Our server has been properly security patched and should not be compromise­d again in the future.'

Go look yourself (limited time offer).

The I.P. range belongs to South West Bell and the network is owned by AT&T. I hope I wasn't the only person to email them at abuse@swbg­lobal.net and abuse@att.­net. They may have simply moved to another provider but I doubt it. You can run but...”

Sourced: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/nitebat/death-threat-domain-names_n...

Not unkillable...

Folks:

I tracked killassang­e.com (did anyone else find this one?) down to the IP http://99.14.214.54/­ka/ and emailed the appropriate abuse addresses.

Go there now and see what it says

it's another domains by proxy item

Here's what I dug up on that one:

 Visiting the ip/dir You listed returns an apologetic message:

We apologize for the site that had been previously posted here, as it was created by an unauthorized hack of our web server. It does not represent our company's true intentions and is not the sort of message we wish to convey. Our server has been properly security patched and should not be compromised again in the future.

The top-level at the site returns a message stating You don't have permission to be here.


geektools returns:

Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: KILLASSANGE.COM

Domain servers in listed order:
NS01.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
NS02.DOMAINCONTROL.COM


from who.godaddy.com

Registrant
Domains by Proxy, Inc.
(480) 624-2599 Phone
(480) 624-2598 Fax
DomainsByProxy.com
15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
United States
killassange.com@domainsbyproxy.com
Administrative Contact
Registration Private
Domains by Proxy, Inc.
(480) 624-2599 Phone
(480) 624-2598 Fax
DomainsByProxy.com
15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
United States
killassange.com@domainsbyproxy.com
Technical Contact
Registration Private
Domains by Proxy, Inc.
(480) 624-2599 Phone
(480) 624-2598 Fax
DomainsByProxy.com
15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
United States
killassange.com@domainsbyproxy.com
Registered Through
GoDaddy.com, Inc.
Domain Name: killassange.com
Created on: 2010-12-21 12:01:10
Expires on: 2011-12-21 12:01:10
Last Updated on: 2010-12-21 12:01:10
Domain Servers
NS01.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
NS02.DOMAINCONTROL.COM


Also, same source:

WHOIS Underlying Registry Data:
Whois Server Version 2.0

Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information.

Domain Name: KILLASSANGE.COM
Registrar: GODADDY.COM, INC.
Whois Server: whois.godaddy.com
Referral URL: http://registrar.godaddy.com
Name Server: NS01.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
Name Server: NS02.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
Status: clientDeleteProhibited
Status: clientRenewProhibited
Status: clientTransferProhibited
Status: clientUpdateProhibited
Updated Date: 21-dec-2010
Creation Date: 21-dec-2010
Expiration Date: 21-dec-2011

>>> Last update of whois database: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 22:05:26 UTC <<<


Covering ones butt...

dredeyedick:

Way to go! I didn't think all that would fit in one post. That first message you show is telling... as if a server under AT&Ts wing would be susceptible to 'hacking'. Hardly!

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