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What is hackerne.ws (mirror of HN)? Could be phishing or SEO spamming?

4 points by Tichy 16y ago

veyron 16y ago
Do a DNS lookup -- both point to same ip: veyron:~ veyron$ nslookup > hackerne.ws Server: 192.168.1.1 Address: 192.168.1.1#53 Non-authoritative answer: Name: hackerne.ws Address: 174.132.225.106 > news.ycombinator.com Server: 192.168.1.1 Address: 192.168.1.1#53 Non-authoritative answer: Name: news.ycombinator.com Address: 174.132.225.106 > ^D
- Tichy 16y ago
  Hm, is that good news? I am not well versed in those black hat search engine scams. Like what if now Google gradually thinks hackerne.ws is the real hacker news, and eventually the owner of hackerne.ws makes it point somewhere else?
- swombat 16y ago
  Which is not to say that they couldn't change it at some point in the future, but for now, they are pointing to the same server.
wvl 16y ago
> whois hackerne.ws ... Registrar Name: GoDaddy.com Registrar Email: dns@jomax.net > whois ycombinator.com ... Registrant: Y Combinator LLC 320 Pioneer Way Mountain View, CA 94041 In other words, someone bought the domain, and pointed it to the same IP. It's been mentioned before, but pg should do a redirect to the correct canonical domain, since there is nothing stopping the domain owner from hijacking, or doing otherwise bad things with it.
koudelka 16y ago
Doesn't appear to be owned by YC. http://who.godaddy.com/whois.aspx?domain=hackerne.ws&prog_id=GoDaddy http://who.godaddy.com/whois.aspx?domain=hackerne.ws&pro...
seancron 16y ago
See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=524470 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=524470 and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=84039 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=84039 An HN member bought the domain and pointed it at news.ycombinator.com Edit: There's also http://y.ww.com/ http://y.ww.com/ which was created by jacquesm when he was giving out subdomains to ww.com (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1796231 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1796231)

4 points by Tichy 16y ago

Do a DNS lookup -- both point to same ip: veyron:~ veyron$ nslookup > hackerne.ws Server: 192.168.1.1 Address: 192.168.1.1#53 Non-authoritative answer: Name: hackerne.ws Address: 174.132.225.106 > news.ycombinator.com Server: 192.168.1.1 Address: 192.168.1.1#53 Non-authoritative answer: Name: news.ycombinator.com Address: 174.132.225.106 > ^D

Tichy 16y ago
Hm, is that good news? I am not well versed in those black hat search engine scams. Like what if now Google gradually thinks hackerne.ws is the real hacker news, and eventually the owner of hackerne.ws makes it point somewhere else?
swombat 16y ago
Which is not to say that they couldn't change it at some point in the future, but for now, they are pointing to the same server.

wvl 16y ago

> whois hackerne.ws ... Registrar Name: GoDaddy.com Registrar Email: dns@jomax.net > whois ycombinator.com ... Registrant: Y Combinator LLC 320 Pioneer Way Mountain View, CA 94041 In other words, someone bought the domain, and pointed it to the same IP. It's been mentioned before, but pg should do a redirect to the correct canonical domain, since there is nothing stopping the domain owner from hijacking, or doing otherwise bad things with it.

koudelka 16y ago

Doesn't appear to be owned by YC. http://who.godaddy.com/whois.aspx?domain=hackerne.ws&prog_id=GoDaddy http://who.godaddy.com/whois.aspx?domain=hackerne.ws&pro...

seancron 16y ago

See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=524470 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=524470 and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=84039 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=84039 An HN member bought the domain and pointed it at news.ycombinator.com Edit: There's also http://y.ww.com/ http://y.ww.com/ which was created by jacquesm when he was giving out subdomains to ww.com (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1796231 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1796231)