[LINK] Internet Domain Names May Have Warned of Attacks

[John Clarke]

On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 10:00:50AM +1000, Rowe, Joshua wrote:

> Domain names on the list provided to Livingstone by an industry insider
> included: 
> 
> "attackamerica.com," 
> "attackonamerica.com," 
> "attackontwintowers.com," 
> "august11horror.com," 
> "august11terror.com" 
> "horrorinamerica.com," 
> "horrorinnewyork.com," 
> "nycterroriststrike.com," 
> "pearlharborinmanhattan.com," 
> "terrorattack2001.com," 
> "towerofhorror.com," 
> "tradetowerstrike.com," 
> "worldtradecenter929.com," 
> "worldtradecenterbombs.com," 
> "worldtradetowerattack.com," 
> "worldtradetowerstrike.com," 
> "wterroristattack2001.com." 

A simple whois check shows that of these, only four actually exist and
three were created after the attack.  I can't get the creation date of
the fourth (the registrar's whois server doesn't seem to exist), merely
that the record was updated on 17-sep-2001:

attackamerica.com               Record created on........: 15-Sep-2001 EST.
attackonamerica.com             Updated Date: 17-sep-2001
attackontwintowers.com          Record created on 2001-09-11.
august11horror.com              No match for "AUGUST11HORROR.COM".
august11terror.com              No match for "AUGUST11TERROR.COM".
horrorinamerica.com             No match for "HORRORINAMERICA.COM".
horrorinnewyork.com             No match for "HORRORINNEWYORK.COM".
nycterroriststrike.com          No match for "NYCTERRORISTSTRIKE.COM".
pearlharborinmanhattan.com      No match for "PEARLHARBORINMANHATTAN.COM".
terrorattack2001.com            No match for "TERRORATTACK2001.COM".
towerofhorror.com               No match for "TOWEROFHORROR.COM".
tradetowerstrike.com            No match for "TRADETOWERSTRIKE.COM".
worldtradecenter929.com         No match for "WORLDTRADECENTER929.COM".
worldtradecenterbombs.com       Record Created on 13-Sep-2001.
worldtradetowerattack.com       No match for "WORLDTRADETOWERATTACK.COM".
worldtradetowerstrike.com       No match for "WORLDTRADETOWERSTRIKE.COM".
wterroristattack2001.com        No match for "WTERRORISTATTACK2001.COM".



Cheers,

John
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