Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay$460G in ransomware attack

On 7/29/19 5:08 AM, Anonymous wrote:

In article , Anonymous
wrote:


Part of the problem is because the .us TLD cannot be used with
WhoisGuard. I only use .com and .net because of this.

then whoisguard is broken.

No, that is what the commies in the government and ICAN decided to
do when the new TDLs were introduced. They couldn't stand to see
people having the freedom to keep themselves anonymous.

Sorry you are out of touch, commies have not controlled
government for years. Now your enemies and mine are Fascists but
all the effective governments I have heard of are fascistic in that
they resort to force to control the dissenters and misfits of
society.

bliss

--
bliss dash SF 4 ever at dslextreme dot com

On 7/29/19 5:08 AM, Anonymous wrote:


In article , Anonymous
wrote:


Part of the problem is because the .us TLD cannot be used
with
WhoisGuard. I only use .com and .net because of this.

then whoisguard is broken.

No, that is what the commies in the government and ICAN
decided to
do when the new TDLs were introduced. They couldn't stand to see
people having the freedom to keep themselves anonymous.

Sorry you are out of touch, commies have not controlled
government for years. Now your enemies and mine are Fascists but
all the effective governments I have heard of are fascistic in
that
they resort to force to control the dissenters and misfits of
society.

You may be right. but you might want to try to grow up a bit.
Slandering and maligning people whom you don't agree with is not a
trait of maturity.

On 7/29/19 9:12 AM, Anonymous wrote:

On 7/29/19 5:08 AM, Anonymous wrote:


In article , Anonymous
wrote:


Part of the problem is because the .us TLD cannot be used
with
WhoisGuard. I only use .com and .net because of this.

then whoisguard is broken.

No, that is what the commies in the government and ICAN
decided to
do when the new TDLs were introduced. They couldn't stand to see
people having the freedom to keep themselves anonymous.

Sorry you are out of touch, commies have not controlled
government for years. Now your enemies and mine are Fascists but
all the effective governments I have heard of are fascistic in
that
they resort to force to control the dissenters and misfits of
society.

You may be right. but you might want to try to grow up a bit.
Slandering and maligning people whom you don't agree with is not a
trait of maturity.

Yes it is not. Otherwise I would not reply to the
op. Even a 81 YOA I maintain a well-informed immaturity so
that I can reply to obvious errors in nomenclature by fairly
obvious trolling to apposite newsgroups.

bliss

On 29/07/2019 16.31, Anonymous wrote:

On 29/07/2019 15.34, The Doctor wrote:

In article , anonymous wrote:

And you misunderstood me completely. The USA government is possibly the
worst "intruder" in your computers, and you will not see it coming,
because it is done by the FBI and the CIA, and they don't show in your
logs. You can do nothing against them. :-P

Better you disconnect your computers and cultivate turnips instead

Use an external pfSense firewall.


Or build a BSD firewall.

Neither will help you. Nothing will, except strong encryption in *all*
your communications.

HA! So says who? pfSense is a BSD firewall.


LOL. Will it protect your emails you send from being scanned by the
secret services authorities?

Funny that you are paranoid enough to hide your name, but you trust a
firewall.


--
Cheers, Carlos.

On 29/07/2019 21.34, Andreas Kohlbach wrote:
On Sun, 28 Jul 2019 23:52:00 -0400, Paul wrote:


It's got nothing to do with "proudness", and everything
to do with the history and "computed value" of the domains.

French often use .fr, Germans .de, Spanish .es, British co.uk or org.uk,
Canadians .ca and on and on. Suppose they are proud of it. They are
otherwise free to use .com or others. But if a page is in French (unless
from Quebec) it will most likely have an .fr or .ma (Morocco) TLD.

Not really. We use .com for companies. My ISP gave me mail addresses
with a .net domain. We don't attach much importance to having a .es
domain. As a matter of fact, we consider a small unimportant company
might use .es, while an important one with money will fight for a .com
domain.

--
Cheers, Carlos.

In message , Andreas Kohlbach
writes:
[]
French often use .fr, Germans .de, Spanish .es, British co.uk or org.uk,

And .ac.uk (academic), and I think a few others (.me.uk maybe). And a
few years ago, just plain .uk - with no intervening bit - became
available. (I took mine out not long after that; since I'm not a company
or organisation, I didn't want .co.uk or .org.uk, but since there was a
tiny chance I might sometime want to be, I didn't want a .me.uk or
similar individual-type indication. It's a cross between a vanity domain
and wanting to have something independent of service providers so I
don't have to tell everyone about change of email if I fall out with a
provider. [I've made sure the domain is registered to me not the company
who handle my registration and email, so I can switch reasonably easily
if I fall out with _them_.])

Canadians .ca and on and on. Suppose they are proud of it. They are
otherwise free to use .com or others. But if a page is in French (unless
from Quebec) it will most likely have an .fr or .ma (Morocco) TLD.

I've always thought .com (etc.) should be for companies (or
organisations, etc.) who are, or see that they might be in the near
future, international, with ones that don't being .co.uk or .org.us or
whatever as appropriate. With ones that were set up before the country
domains really got going being allowed to continue as just .com, though
maybe only for say 10 or 15 years, unless they could show they _do_
operate in more than one country.

Trump failed in his election campaign. The slogan should have been "Make
.us great again". ;-)

(-:
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

At the age of 7, Julia Elizabeth Wells could sing notes only dogs could hear.

In message , Carlos E.R.
writes:
On 29/07/2019 21.34, Andreas Kohlbach wrote:
On Sun, 28 Jul 2019 23:52:00 -0400, Paul wrote:


It's got nothing to do with "proudness", and everything
to do with the history and "computed value" of the domains.

French often use .fr, Germans .de, Spanish .es, British co.uk or org.uk,
Canadians .ca and on and on. Suppose they are proud of it. They are
otherwise free to use .com or others. But if a page is in French (unless
from Quebec) it will most likely have an .fr or .ma (Morocco) TLD.

Not really. We use .com for companies. My ISP gave me mail addresses
with a .net domain. We don't attach much importance to having a .es
domain. As a matter of fact, we consider a small unimportant company
might use .es, while an important one with money will fight for a .com
domain.

Can't speak for .es, but I presume they're mostly cheaper to register
and keep registered than .com, .org etc.; they certainly are for .uk as
opposed to .com and the rest. Which makes sense - there is more
competition for .com, as companies from all nations will be after them.
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

At the age of 7, Julia Elizabeth Wells could sing notes only dogs could hear.

On 30/07/2019 03.30, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Carlos E.R.
writes:
On 29/07/2019 21.34, Andreas Kohlbach wrote:
On Sun, 28 Jul 2019 23:52:00 -0400, Paul wrote:


It's got nothing to do with "proudness", and everything
to do with the history and "computed value" of the domains.

French often use .fr, Germans .de, Spanish .es, British co.uk or org.uk,
Canadians .ca and on and on. Suppose they are proud of it. They are
otherwise free to use .com or others. But if a page is in French (unless
from Quebec) it will most likely have an .fr or .ma (Morocco) TLD.

Not really. We use .com for companies. My ISP gave me mail addresses
with a .net domain. We don't attach much importance to having a .es
domain. As a matter of fact, we consider a small unimportant company
might use .es, while an important one with money will fight for a .com
domain.

Can't speak for .es, but I presume they're mostly cheaper to register
and keep registered than .com, .org etc.; they certainly are for .uk as
opposed to .com and the rest. Which makes sense - there is more
competition for .com, as companies from all nations will be after them.

Yep.

Not only price, but competition. Also somebody may have registered and
parked the domain, hoping to sell it to you for a hefty price, which
happens more on .com domains.

--
Cheers, Carlos.

Carlos E.R. wrote:
On 29/07/2019 21.34, Andreas Kohlbach wrote:
On Sun, 28 Jul 2019 23:52:00 -0400, Paul wrote:

It's got nothing to do with "proudness", and everything
to do with the history and "computed value" of the domains.

French often use .fr, Germans .de, Spanish .es, British co.uk or org.uk,
Canadians .ca and on and on. Suppose they are proud of it. They are
otherwise free to use .com or others. But if a page is in French (unless
from Quebec) it will most likely have an .fr or .ma (Morocco) TLD.

Not really. We use .com for companies. My ISP gave me mail addresses
with a .net domain. We don't attach much importance to having a .es
domain. As a matter of fact, we consider a small unimportant company
might use .es, while an important one with money will fight for a .com
domain.

In our country, and - as others also mentioned - probably in most, a
company which only operates locally will use a local domain (i.e. .nl
for our country). A company which operates internationally will try to
get a .com domain (if it's available and affordable) *and* a local
domain.

And, as already mentioned, there are countries which also use a local
domain, with a '.com' or '.co' prefix, i.e. https://www.telstra.com.au
(the main Australian telco (which also owns telstra.com, without .au)).

On Mon, 29 Jul 2019 13:27:23 +0200, "Carlos E.R."
wrote:

The USA government is possibly the
worst "intruder" in your computers, and you will not see it coming,
because it is done by the FBI and the CIA, and they don't show in your
logs. You can do nothing against them. :-P

Better you disconnect your computers and cultivate turnips instead :-P

When grown in certain soils, such as those rich in iron and/or other
specific minerals, turnips can be used to spy on you.

Or so I've been told. ;-)

On a more serious note, the potatoes have eyes and the corn is all ears,
so take care when strolling through the garden. Always speak in code.

On Mon, 29 Jul 2019 07:04:11 -0500, "anonymous"
wrote:


And you misunderstood me completely. The USA government is
possibly the
worst "intruder" in your computers, and you will not see it
coming,
because it is done by the FBI and the CIA, and they don't show in
your
logs. You can do nothing against them. :-P

Better you disconnect your computers and cultivate turnips instead

Use an external pfSense firewall.

+1

On Tue, 30 Jul 2019 02:26:08 +0100, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

In message , Andreas Kohlbach
writes:

[...]

Canadians .ca and on and on. Suppose they are proud of it. They are
otherwise free to use .com or others. But if a page is in French (unless
from Quebec) it will most likely have an .fr or .ma (Morocco) TLD.

I've always thought .com (etc.) should be for companies (or
organisations, etc.) who are, or see that they might be in the near
future, international, with ones that don't being .co.uk or .org.us or
whatever as appropriate. With ones that were set up before the country
domains really got going being allowed to continue as just .com,
though maybe only for say 10 or 15 years, unless they could show they
_do_ operate in more than one country.

Yes, seems right. Somebody mentioned larger enterprises, like Google, do
have .com but also localized TLDs for about every country. Well
https://www.google.kp/ doesn't exist for obvious reasons.
--
Andreas

On 30/07/2019 21.02, Andreas Kohlbach wrote:
On Tue, 30 Jul 2019 00:00:55 +0200, Carlos E.R. wrote:

On 29/07/2019 21.34, Andreas Kohlbach wrote:
On Sun, 28 Jul 2019 23:52:00 -0400, Paul wrote:

It's got nothing to do with "proudness", and everything
to do with the history and "computed value" of the domains.

French often use .fr, Germans .de, Spanish .es, British co.uk or org.uk,
Canadians .ca and on and on. Suppose they are proud of it. They are
otherwise free to use .com or others. But if a page is in French (unless
from Quebec) it will most likely have an .fr or .ma (Morocco) TLD.

Not really. We use .com for companies. My ISP gave me mail addresses
with a .net domain. We don't attach much importance to having a .es
domain. As a matter of fact, we consider a small unimportant company
might use .es, while an important one with money will fight for a .com
domain.

Like https://www.google.es/ ? ;-)

LOL.

Google buys their domain on all of them.

--
Cheers, Carlos.