Why they registered scientology.org.au: to flood search engines

David Gerard, Sep 1998

From: fun@thingy.apana.org.au (David Gerard)
Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology
Subject: scientology.org.au registered
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 10:25:38 GMT
Message-ID: <3603e143.6245654@202.12.87.97>


www.scientology.org.au points to www.scientology.org ;
home.scientology.org.au contains some spam-pages, and you can't
access the top-level index.



thingy:~> whois -h whois.aunic.net scientology.org.au

domain:      scientology.org.au
descr:       Church of Scientology Incorporated
descr:       19-37 Greek Street Glebe N South, Wales 2037 Australia
admin-c:     LR279-AU
tech-c:      LR279-AU
zone-c:      LR279-AU
changed:     hostmaster@aunic.net 980629
source:      AUNIC

person:      Liz Reeve
address:     Church of Scientology Incorporated
address:     19-37 Greek Street
address:     Glebe N South
address:     WA 2037
address:     AU
phone:       +61 11 612 952 3733
fax-no:      +61 11 612 952 3025
e-mail:      hostmaster@scientology.net
nic-hdl:     LR279-AU
source:      AUNIC


thingy:~> host -v -t any scientology.org.au
Query about scientology.org.au for record types ANY
Trying scientology.org.au ...
Query done, 6 answers, status: no error
The following answer is not authoritative:
scientology.org.au      85548   IN      A       198.95.10.33
scientology.org.au      77839   IN      NS      ns2.scientology.org
scientology.org.au      77839   IN      NS      ns1.scientology.net
scientology.org.au      86238   IN      SOA     ns1.scientology.org
hostmaster.scientology.net (
                        96121906        ;serial (version)
                        10800   ;refresh period (3 hours)
                        1800    ;retry interval (30 minutes)
                        3600000 ;expire time (5 weeks, 6 days, 16 hours)
                        86400   ;default ttl (1 day)
                        )
scientology.org.au      86255   IN      MX      50 smtp.scientology.org
scientology.org.au      77839   IN      NS      ns1.scientology.org
Authoritative nameservers:
scientology.org.au      77839   IN      NS      ns2.scientology.org
scientology.org.au      77839   IN      NS      ns1.scientology.net
scientology.org.au      77839   IN      NS      ns1.scientology.org
Additional information:
ns2.scientology.org     157457  IN      A       198.95.10.18
ns1.scientology.net     172132  IN      A       205.180.15.9
smtp.scientology.org    14262   IN      A       198.95.10.16
ns1.scientology.org     157430  IN      A       198.95.10.17





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From: David Gerard <fun@thingy.apana.org.au>
Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology
Subject: Why they registered scientology.org.au: to flood search engines
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 13:57:15 +1000
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980928135058.27748A-100000@thingy.apana.org.au>


Go to www.anzwers.com.au (a search engine for Australia and New Zealand).
You only get listed as Australian or from New Zealand if your domain name
ends in .au or .nz .

My pages are listed on there (suburbia.net is also known as
suburbia.net.au). There's a peppering of other pages. Most of it is
everything from *.scientology.org .

How annoying :-)

(Why do I care? 'Cos lots of Australian stuff shows on the local engines
that doesn't show in the international ones.)

Presumably this also applies to other countries' domains. Why not check
out *yours* and see how we go?


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