malicious use of .us domain

[peekaboo]

"The spooky Regulatory Compliance Commission has a Web site--www.regcc dot us--sporting a U.S. government-like seal, a Denver office building address and a stated mission to "regulate the international securities industry." But the listed suite doesn't exist, and the outfit is unknown to the building owner. Official suspicion: Cold-calling financial sharpies tell a sucker to check them out on the site, which conveniently has nothing bad to say about the callers. A FORBES e-mail through the Web site elicited a return call from an individual saying that he was an RCC "investigator." He denied that the declaration on the Web site about the RCC being subject to the Freedom of Information Act or the Code of Federal Regulations was meant to trick investors into thinking it was a governmental agency. He also declined to identify the head of the RCC, which keeps secret the owner data for its Web domain."

http://www.whois.us/whois.cgi?TLD=us&dn=regcc.us&TYPE=DOMAIN&Search=Submit+Query

forbes dot com/forbes/2005/0328/044.html

 

[zouzas]

so person on phone he said it was not an official goverment site????