I was looking on the dropping domain name list on NameJet.com today and I found these gems:
0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-43-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0.info
0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-44-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0.info
0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-45-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0.info
0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-46-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0.info
0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-47-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0.info
0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-48-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0.info
0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-49-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0.info
0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-50-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0.info
0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-51-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0.info
0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-52-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0.info
0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-53-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0.info
0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-54-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0.info
0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-55-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0.info
0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-56-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0.info
They were all registered by the same person in 2010 so they paid for two years of registration each.
If you can’t live without these domains you can certainly backorder them for the drop.
Or don’t reg 100s of .MOBI names.
Don’t end up like this guy, Bhanot, who once bragged about having the “world’s best Spanish dot
mobi domains”. LOL
Check this out:
http://www.dnforum.com/f283/offers-invited-worlds-best-spanish-mobi-portfolio-thread-202980.html
Where are the .MOBI domains today…
LOL
Wow. And I thought I had made some questionable decisions in the past. Wow!
A code?
Nice names, but I will wait to reg them in .WEB.
i may be atypical… but i don’t think those domains would be worth anymore if they were dotcoms.
cool… will reg under dot bs
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/nicolas-cage-superman-comic-record-2-million-sale-267770
Malware control domains.
Not sure I would be able to find any leads for those
o-o-o-o-o-o-o-k-n-o-o-o-o-o-o-w-I-b-u-u-u-u-u-u-y-o-o-o-o-o-o-n-e-e-e-e-e-e-o-o-o-o-o-o-f-t-h-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-m.info 🙂
Weed?
Did you register 0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-57-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0.info so you could cash in on this trend? 😛
You could lose millions carrying stories like these…heck I could lose millions watching you lose millions!
I wish I had been there when it happened (domain registrations), I am really curious how the heck does someone decide to register these domain…
i always assume domains like this are for sending spam. or as “malware control” domains as said above.
they just need an entry point or several into the public dns. any name will do.
this is a weakness of using dns. imo. because if we just focused on ip’s from the outset instead of starting with names, we could identify malfeasants a little easier.
but what happens is we start with names. which can be highly ambiguous and difficult to type correctly. then we have to trace them to ip’s, which can change by the second (thanks to the brilliance of “ttl”). finally we ban the ip’s.
why not just start with ip’s?
“because people don’t like typing numbers.”
oh, right. i forgot.
legend has it the move away from switchboard operators toward dialing phone numbers was meant with great resistance. too impersonal they thought. people don’t like typing numbers.
Put 3D in front of these and they would be worth a small fortune 😉
Scroll down to the bottom:
http://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/Threat/Encyclopedia/Entry.aspx?Name=Worm%3AWin32%2FAutorun.AEJ
I’m willing to bet whoever registered this used them to make plenty of money with malware or spam or something sketchy. You can’t register a domain like this by accident. But yes if they were used for “domaining” then they had no change of a win.
These are future trend domains. Just wait, they will pay off. See 3D thread for more like these.
Drinking and/or doing drugs is never a good idea when registering domains.
If you google those names, you’ll find that, yes, they were associated with malware.
This may come as a surprise to many people here, but domain names are actually used for a variety of purposes that have nothing to do with their resale value.
If you are releasing a malware package which is going to receive command and control instructions for somewhere else, then you program an algorithm into it which looks to find that command and control. The domain names might be taken down when detected, so you can have a routine which generates yet-to-be registered names in order to contact the mother ship.
Normally, the domain name generation algorithm is more complicated than this one, but the point is to be able to reach domain names which are not incidentally registered by someone else for another purpose.
I’ve often wondered how much malware would fail without the ability to do name lookup.
That is, if the user were in control of all lookups on her machine, via DNS or HOSTS file[1], how much malware would fail to work, having no way to dial the Mother Ship.
Many years ago a lot of viruses used to use the Windows HOSTS file to do their thing. It’s seems so simple and easily fixable as to be ineffective, but it worked like a charm. Even today, the average Windows user still has no idea what a HOSTS file is let alone where to find it.
1. This is actually quite easy to do, by either maintaing a good HOSTS file and/or running an authoritative or recursive nameserver on your machine that catches all DNS queries. Not only will arguably you make yourself safer from malware that needs to phone home, but you’ll notice a considerable speed increase in web browsing.