"Cybersquat" ?

[PETREOLLE Sylvain]

I noticed a curious thing when trying to access the AppDB today.

Using IE (didnt make test with other browser), entering "appdb.winehq.org"
without the htpp:// takes me
to a site called "http://appdb.winehq.org.com".

Has someone of the wine team done anything to own this URL ?

[Jon Bright]

Hi,

PETREOLLE Sylvain wrote:
> I noticed a curious thing when trying to access the AppDB today.
>
> Using IE (didnt make test with other browser), entering "appdb.winehq.org"
> without the htpp:// takes me
> to a site called "http://appdb.winehq.org.com".
>
> Has someone of the wine team done anything to own this URL ?

Not really a squat - they own the whole of org.com, they're free to do 
what they want with it imho.

http://anything.atall.org.com/ goes to that same page.

--
Jon Bright
Lead Programmer, Silicon Circus Ltd.
http://www.siliconcircus.com

[Mike McCormack]

http://blah.blah.org.com/

the above URL gives the same page as appdb.winehq.org.com. Somebody's 
squatting on the entire .org domain.

Mike


PETREOLLE Sylvain wrote:
> I noticed a curious thing when trying to access the AppDB today.
>
> Using IE (didnt make test with other browser), entering "appdb.winehq.org"
> without the htpp:// takes me
> to a site called "http://appdb.winehq.org.com".
>
> Has someone of the wine team done anything to own this URL ?

[Dustin Navea]

just another web portal playing on typos...  i dont have that problem tho.. 
i can type it in ie without the http:// and it takes me to the appdb


--- PETREOLLE Sylvain <Sylvain.PETREOLLE(a)gefco.fr> wrote:
> I noticed a curious thing when trying to access the AppDB today.
>
> Using IE (didnt make test with other browser), entering "appdb.winehq.org"
> without the htpp:// takes me
> to a site called "http://appdb.winehq.org.com".
>
> Has someone of the wine team done anything to own this URL ?

=====
--
Dustin Navea

Minor Contributor, http://www.winehq.com
Bugzilla Janitor, http://bugs.winehq.com
Network Admin, irc://irc.blynk.net (down)

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[Fabian Cenedese]

> just another web portal playing on typos...  i dont have that problem tho.. 
> i can type it in ie without the http:// and it takes me to the appdb

I think there's a config switch wether IE will complete addresses with
http:// and .com if it can't find the entered address. Or maybe that
was Mozilla...

bye  Fabi