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Old 02-08-2008, 10:59 AM   #1 (permalink)
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I was scanning sedo.com this morning and here is what i found

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WAB.COM is now the property of the United States government.

The domain and web site were surrendered to U.S. law enforcement pursuant to a federal prosecution and felony plea agreement for conspiracy to violate criminal copyright laws. Antonio Del Santos, a.k.a "AloneTrio" pled guilty in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on January 25, 2008, to conspiring with others to violate federal copyright laws by illegally releasing copyrighted code illegally circumvent built-in security protections and allow individuals to run "homebrew" software on game consoles, such as the Sony PSP and Nintendo Wii. Del Santos and his co-conspirators used www.wab.com as the exclusive outlet to provide copyrighted code to individuals. As a result, the WAB website is now the property of the United States government. Individuals involved in this conduct face up to five years in federal prison and a fine of $500,000 for each count charged.
Piracy is the unauthorized, willful reproduction or distribution of copyrighted material, such as software, movies, music, and games. People who distribute pirated works over the Internet via IRC, FTP sites, web sites, or file-sharing networks, and people who download or reproduce pirated works are risking criminal prosecution. Piracy is a crime even when the works are distributed over the Internet for free or where the conduct does not involve monetary gain, such as the trading of pirated products for other pirated products.
The Department of Justice and federal law enforcement will continue to investigate and prosecute individuals and groups that violate the federal criminal copyright laws at home and abroad. For more information on these and other federal anti-piracy investigations, visit www.cybercrime.gov.
http://wab.com/

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Old 02-08-2008, 11:28 AM   #2 (permalink)
 
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Interesting.
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Old 02-08-2008, 11:36 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Even more interesting is that the whois info still shows the old registrant info.
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Old 02-08-2008, 11:37 AM   #4 (permalink)
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http://web.archive.org/web/200703142...//www.wab.com/
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Old 02-08-2008, 11:56 AM   #5 (permalink)
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OMG why use such a valuble name for this? STUPID!
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Old 02-08-2008, 12:03 PM   #6 (permalink)
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OMG why use such a valuble name for this? STUPID!
How much value? Around $10,000. That is not so much.
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Old 02-08-2008, 12:08 PM   #7 (permalink)
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How much value? Around $10,000. That is not so much.
wab.com?

Gotta be worth $25,000+
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Old 02-08-2008, 12:11 PM   #8 (permalink)
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http://filext.com/file-extension/WAB

http://www.wab.edu/
www.wab.org

there are 4.9M results in google for the letters. I would think there is more value then that.

Anyway, it is too bad that they lost the domain name.
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Old 02-08-2008, 01:13 PM   #9 (permalink)
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I would rather care about the 5 years in prison in their position...
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Old 02-08-2008, 01:30 PM   #10 (permalink)
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Great 3 letter domain
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Old 02-08-2008, 01:33 PM   #11 (permalink)
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watch its going to end up on sedo's auction soon
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Old 02-08-2008, 02:10 PM   #12 (permalink)
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http://www.sedo.com/auction/auction_...ed=&partnerid=

http://www.sedo.com/auction/auction_...ed=&partnerid=

I think WAB.com is better then these two, and they are both above 10K

I would really not use a name like that for doing something that the US could arrest me for and take it away... If I was to do what they were doing, I would do it offshore.
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Old 02-08-2008, 02:27 PM   #13 (permalink)
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Two things you would not expect with a US Government owned domain:

1. Whois shows the original owner as the registrant
2. Domain resolves to 88.191.33.33 which is a French ip address:

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inetnum: 88.191.3.0 - 88.191.248.255
netname: FR-DEDIBOX
descr: Dedibox SAS
descr: Customers
descr: Paris, France
Isn't this story just a hoax to spotlight the domain?

Two more very unlikely facts:

The page at wab.com contains the following code:

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<script type="text/javascript" src="https://www.cybercrime.gov/"></script>
3. The src URL does not contain a javascript, but what it does is alerting the visitor that www.cybercrime.gov tries to use an Akamai certificate, and also shows the cybercrime.gov site in the browsers status bar suggesting we are connecting to an official government website while in fact we are not.

4. Searching for "wab.com" or "wab" on http://www.cybercrime.gov/ does return no results.
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Old 02-08-2008, 02:44 PM   #14 (permalink)
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You know, I think this is a joke... the name is still in the control of this "AloneTrio" and the host IP is in French too.

http://whois.domaintools.com/88.191.33.33

http://www.dedibox.fr/

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Two things you would not expect with a US Government owned domain:

1. Whois shows the original owner as the registrant
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Isn't this story just a hoax to spotlight the domain?

Two more very unlikely facts:

The page at wab.com contains the following code:

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<script type="text/javascript" src="https://www.cybercrime.gov/"></script>
3. The src URL does not contain a javascript, but what it does is alerting the visitor that www.cybercrime.gov tries to use an Akamai certificate, and also shows the cybercrime.gov site in the browsers status bar suggesting we are connecting to an official government website while in fact we are not.

4. Searching for "wab.com" or "wab" on http://www.cybercrime.gov/ does return no results.


I did not see your post before my post above, but I was thinking the same...

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Since it's now owned by the government, let's wait for it to be dropped next year or thereafter.
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I don't really think so, owner of $$$$$$ domain name will not joke like what with his money.
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very interesting

If that's fake, then why would he do that? to get us to discuss about it here?
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I don't really think so, owner of $$$$$$ domain name will not joke like what with his money.
Why not? I've seen people gambling with multiples of that at the blackjack table.
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Even more interesting is that the whois info still shows the old registrant info.
It's possible law enforcement got a court order for it.
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It's possible law enforcement got a court order for it.
But why would they host the ste on a dedicated server in Frence?

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