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Nice try NSA

by benmcnelly 10y ago

Nice try NSA

achairapart 10y ago
From T&C: > Freenom is a registered trademark of OpenTLD B.V. [...] a Netherlands company.
- mikro2nd 10y ago
  OK, I'll bite... Who owns OpenTLD BV? (And so on recursively up the ownership chain...)
  - wila 10y ago
    If you do a whois on the IP, you'll get an address in Amsterdam. From that same address suddenly a whole list of companies pops up. Euro ventures b.v., carwrap, dreamteam internet project management, transventure, verotel, safety future ... Seems a bit like a spiderweb :D
    - jk563 10y ago
      Usually indicates that it's a legal address and nothing more. Plenty of companies offer a registered address B2B service that enables a company to use them as their registered address.
      - wila 10y ago
        Yeah, I think you are right, sorry about that. Transventure appears to be the company offering co-work spaces. Guess that explains why there are so many companies on that address. The suspension from ICANN for cyber squatting appears to be more worrying though for a company offering DNS services.
    - wila 10y ago
      and then there's this: http://domainincite.com/18797-freenom-suspended-for-cybersquatting-rival-registrars http://domainincite.com/18797-freenom-suspended-for-cybersqu... edit: They are also the company behind the .tk domain. http://www.dot.tk/en/index.html?lang=en http://www.dot.tk/en/index.html?lang=en
- tlrobinson 10y ago
  I'm not saying I believe this is an NSA operation, but it's certainly not beyond governments' capabilities to secretly register foreign companies.
  - akjainaj 10y ago
    The CIA then? ;)
  - Nadya 10y ago
    Like the FBI spy planes registered to 13 companies... I don't imagine it is much of a stretch to register under a foreign company instead. Also not saying I believe it is an NSA operation - just providing an example of another 3-letter agency registering fake companies in an attempt to mask their operations.
- tsimmi 10y ago
  There you go: http://opentld.com/partners/ http://opentld.com/partners/ There's some degree of Chinese involvement in this through CNNIC (China Internet Network Information Center)...
- rcdmd 10y ago
  > From T&C: >> Freenom is a registered trademark of OpenTLD B.V. [...] a Netherlands company. Nice try NSA
michaelcampbell 10y ago
Why would the NSA need to own a DNS server to get DNS information from everyone?

Nice try NSA

achairapart 10y ago

From T&C: > Freenom is a registered trademark of OpenTLD B.V. [...] a Netherlands company.

mikro2nd 10y ago
OK, I'll bite... Who owns OpenTLD BV? (And so on recursively up the ownership chain...)
- wila 10y ago
  If you do a whois on the IP, you'll get an address in Amsterdam. From that same address suddenly a whole list of companies pops up. Euro ventures b.v., carwrap, dreamteam internet project management, transventure, verotel, safety future ... Seems a bit like a spiderweb :D
  - jk563 10y ago
    Usually indicates that it's a legal address and nothing more. Plenty of companies offer a registered address B2B service that enables a company to use them as their registered address.
    - wila 10y ago
      Yeah, I think you are right, sorry about that. Transventure appears to be the company offering co-work spaces. Guess that explains why there are so many companies on that address. The suspension from ICANN for cyber squatting appears to be more worrying though for a company offering DNS services.
  - wila 10y ago
    and then there's this: http://domainincite.com/18797-freenom-suspended-for-cybersquatting-rival-registrars http://domainincite.com/18797-freenom-suspended-for-cybersqu... edit: They are also the company behind the .tk domain. http://www.dot.tk/en/index.html?lang=en http://www.dot.tk/en/index.html?lang=en
tlrobinson 10y ago
I'm not saying I believe this is an NSA operation, but it's certainly not beyond governments' capabilities to secretly register foreign companies.
- akjainaj 10y ago
  The CIA then? ;)
- Nadya 10y ago
  Like the FBI spy planes registered to 13 companies... I don't imagine it is much of a stretch to register under a foreign company instead. Also not saying I believe it is an NSA operation - just providing an example of another 3-letter agency registering fake companies in an attempt to mask their operations.
tsimmi 10y ago
There you go: http://opentld.com/partners/ http://opentld.com/partners/ There's some degree of Chinese involvement in this through CNNIC (China Internet Network Information Center)...
rcdmd 10y ago
> From T&C: >> Freenom is a registered trademark of OpenTLD B.V. [...] a Netherlands company. Nice try NSA

michaelcampbell 10y ago

Why would the NSA need to own a DNS server to get DNS information from everyone?