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Old August 26th 18, 11:41 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Peter Jason
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Default Another junk website?

The domain ".website" seems to hold ads & junk.
Ads
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Old August 27th 18, 01:58 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Peter Jason
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Default Another junk website?

On Mon, 27 Aug 2018 01:16:11 +0100, ? Good Guy ?
wrote:

On 26/08/2018 23:41, Peter Jason wrote:
The domain ".website" seems to hold ads & junk.



So what do you want us to do about them? Why are you habitually posting
crap here? are you some mad Aussie crying about your country's
political system? Mind boggles that they keep changing their PMs like
people changing their computers.


* sniff *

I am trying to assist others here. They can add
that string to their kill files in Outlook.

I suspect your political leaders change as often
as your underware!

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Old August 27th 18, 09:49 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Andy Burns[_6_]
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Peter Jason wrote:

The domain ".website" seems to hold ads & junk.


There's metric ****-tonne of 'new' gTLDs ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_domains#ICANN-era_generic_top-level_domains
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Old August 28th 18, 05:26 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Nil[_5_]
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On 26 Aug 2018, Peter Jason wrote in
alt.comp.os.windows-10:

The domain ".website" seems to hold ads & junk.


That is a top-level domain designation, not a domain. There are many
domains with that extension, not just one. Their various contents could
include anything, not just "ads & junk".

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Old August 28th 18, 11:54 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Paul[_32_]
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Nil wrote:
On 26 Aug 2018, Peter Jason wrote in
alt.comp.os.windows-10:

The domain ".website" seems to hold ads & junk.


That is a top-level domain designation, not a domain. There are many
domains with that extension, not just one. Their various contents could
include anything, not just "ads & junk".


This article will put you off to sleep on the topic
of TLDs, but I did like them naming the worst one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_top-level_domain

"In 2018, Spamhaus rated .men as the worst top-level domain
in terms of spam and scamming. .men comes top with 60.6 per cent
of its 73,000 domains identified as "bad", resulting in a
badness index of 6.48.

The company that runs .men, Famous Four Media also runs the
third worst registry - .loan – with 59 per cent bad domains
and a 6.22 index.
"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System

"For example, the domain name www.example.com

translates to the addresses 93.184.216.34 (IPv4)"

I copied those two, to show the difference between a TLD
and a "domain name". I wasn't really aware of how dangerously
similar the terminology is.

The diagram in the DNS article, shows some of the steps.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...S_resolver.svg

An organization can run their own nameserver. For example,
Wikipedia can have a wikipedia.org nameserver, and if
a query like "cucumber.wikipedia.org" came in, it could
be that nameserver which answers the query. And names
like that, also allow an IP number to be shared

www.wikipedia.org 22.33.44.55
cucumber.wikipedia.org 22.33.44.55

A server on 22.33.44.55 can look at the symbolic
name and figure out what "service" the user was looking
for. If I do this

http://22.33.44.55

I wouldn't get a reasonable answer. Whereas if I do this

http://cucumber.wikipedia.org

then equipment in the Wikipedia building can figure
out which server I want ("cucumber"), even though the same numeric
IP address happens to be associated with it. And I only
continue getting reasonable answers, as long as I use
symbolic addresses.

http://cucumber.wikipedia.org/index.htm

I only wanted to mention that, so people could understand
where "brokenness" comes from sometimes. It's not always
"Internet equipment" which is broken, and the broke part
can be inside a business.

Paul
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Old August 29th 18, 12:03 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Peter Jason
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Default Another junk website?

On Tue, 28 Aug 2018 00:26:32 -0400, Nil
wrote:

On 26 Aug 2018, Peter Jason wrote in
alt.comp.os.windows-10:

The domain ".website" seems to hold ads & junk.


That is a top-level domain designation, not a domain. There are many
domains with that extension, not just one. Their various contents could
include anything, not just "ads & junk".



All the ones I'm getting are exclusively junk. I
keep my eye on them though.
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Old September 23rd 18, 02:47 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Char Jackson
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Default Another junk website?

On Tue, 28 Aug 2018 06:54:06 -0400, Paul wrote:

Nil wrote:
On 26 Aug 2018, Peter Jason wrote in
alt.comp.os.windows-10:

The domain ".website" seems to hold ads & junk.


That is a top-level domain designation, not a domain. There are many
domains with that extension, not just one. Their various contents could
include anything, not just "ads & junk".


This article will put you off to sleep on the topic
of TLDs, but I did like them naming the worst one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_top-level_domain

"In 2018, Spamhaus rated .men as the worst top-level domain
in terms of spam and scamming. .men comes top with 60.6 per cent
of its 73,000 domains identified as "bad", resulting in a
badness index of 6.48.

The company that runs .men, Famous Four Media also runs the
third worst registry - .loan – with 59 per cent bad domains
and a 6.22 index.
"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System

"For example, the domain name www.example.com

translates to the addresses 93.184.216.34 (IPv4)"

I copied those two, to show the difference between a TLD
and a "domain name". I wasn't really aware of how dangerously
similar the terminology is.

The diagram in the DNS article, shows some of the steps.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...S_resolver.svg

An organization can run their own nameserver. For example,
Wikipedia can have a wikipedia.org nameserver, and if
a query like "cucumber.wikipedia.org" came in, it could
be that nameserver which answers the query. And names
like that, also allow an IP number to be shared

www.wikipedia.org 22.33.44.55
cucumber.wikipedia.org 22.33.44.55

A server on 22.33.44.55 can look at the symbolic
name and figure out what "service" the user was looking
for. If I do this

http://22.33.44.55

I wouldn't get a reasonable answer. Whereas if I do this

http://cucumber.wikipedia.org

then equipment in the Wikipedia building can figure
out which server I want ("cucumber"), even though the same numeric
IP address happens to be associated with it. And I only
continue getting reasonable answers, as long as I use
symbolic addresses.

http://cucumber.wikipedia.org/index.htm

I only wanted to mention that, so people could understand
where "brokenness" comes from sometimes. It's not always
"Internet equipment" which is broken, and the broke part
can be inside a business.


FYI, there's nothing broken about your example above. All of that is
intentional and working as it was designed. The days of being limited to
one site per IP address ended nearly 30 years ago. Also, you can access
any site by its IP address, even sites using the shared hosting model,
if you insert the proper headers so that the destination server can
determine which site you're looking for, but web browsers won't do that
for you automatically, so it's easier to use the name versus the IP. By
using a fully qualified domain name (FQDN) as the destination, your
browser will know how to create and insert the headers referred to
above. Bottom line, it's those headers that do the magic, not the fact
that you requested a site by its FQDN. The destination site doesn't see
what you typed into your browser.

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Old September 23rd 18, 03:47 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Mark Lloyd[_2_]
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Default Another junk website?

On 09/23/2018 08:47 AM, Char Jackson wrote:

[snip]

FYI, there's nothing broken about your example above. All of that is
intentional and working as it was designed. The days of being limited to
one site per IP address ended nearly 30 years ago. Also, you can access
any site by its IP address, even sites using the shared hosting model,
if you insert the proper headers so that the destination server can
determine which site you're looking for,


The Host header is what specifies the domain. MSIE has been inserting
the Host header since version 3.

[snip]

--
93 days until the winter celebration (Tue Dec 25, 2018 12:00:00 AM for 1
day).

Mark Lloyd
http://notstupid.us/

"It's called religion. It's when you believe something that nobody in
his right mind would believe." -- Archie Bunker
  #9  
Old September 23rd 18, 08:18 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Char Jackson
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Default Another junk website?

On Sun, 23 Sep 2018 09:47:22 -0500, Mark Lloyd wrote:

On 09/23/2018 08:47 AM, Char Jackson wrote:

[snip]

FYI, there's nothing broken about your example above. All of that is
intentional and working as it was designed. The days of being limited to
one site per IP address ended nearly 30 years ago. Also, you can access
any site by its IP address, even sites using the shared hosting model,
if you insert the proper headers so that the destination server can
determine which site you're looking for,


The Host header is what specifies the domain. MSIE has been inserting
the Host header since version 3.

[snip]


Exactly.

 




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