Forum Moderators: phranque
Example: Our site and company name is something like Mary's products, with the domain name something like mary's.com. It went to a site with completely unrelated products, but the name was similar, marys_other_products.com.
Thought the domain name expired. Nope. Though someone hacked the registrar account. Nope, The web servers, nope, they were just gone.
Thought also IE was searching from the address bar, but that option is and always has been OFF. Additionally I went to search.msn.com and searched for "Mary.com" ad of course the entire first two pages is our site.
Anyone have clues here? If this is happening for other IE users, we are losing a lot of business . . .
EDIT: On further investigation, I tried searching for this "other site" and can't even find them in search engines!
Yesterday our host servers when down for about an hour (nice going.) In trying to access our site, it went to a completely different site!
The DNS resolution system can be "hijacked" in a way that a domain name (i.e. mary.com) can be redirected to a different host (i.e. my_other_mary.com) due to the order of the DNS entries. It has happened in past with microsoft.com domain.
I suggest you to try move your DNS server on another machine, or to use an high availability service (i.e. [dyndns.com...]
Sincerely,
Filippo Toso
This issue still bothers me. This "other site" is topically different, vieing their pages and searching for the .com name reveals nothing, so I don't think it's something they intentionally did, there would be no advantage. I will see if I can find any articles on the M.S. hack you mentioned, sorry if I missed it - must have been working. :-)
