This story seems absolutely scandalous, if it’s true.
It definitely seems like one that somebody here can debunk if it’s untrue. I searched the archives here and on the great Snopes, but didn’t find anything. I also tried a ‘whois’ lookup on Internic.net - I only found one of the domains registered and it was registered on the day of the attack. (But there are other competitors of Internic now who register domains, right?)
I know nothing about the credentials of this site - could be a couple of guys in a basement running it for all I know.
Perhaps they were registered with the 1993 bombing of the WTC in mind. None of them mentions airplanes crashing into them, so they could be about the truck bomb that exploded there 8 years ago.
New here, hello. Popping in because I’m a DNS admin with a very large hosting company, so this is my field of BS, if you will. Most, if not all of these types of domain names were not registered until after the attacks. Many of the ones that were listed may have been actually been registered at one point, but individual registrars have the authority to reject or hold the registration of a domain name based on their discretion. Some may even have appeared to been registered the day before depending on the time zone of the registrar they used and the time zone they are in.
In regards to the article referanced, FBI has nothing to do with domain name registrations. registrars don’t generally police domain names that are being registered unless something like this happens. It is generally illegal for most hosting companies to police their customer’s sites or content unless illegal activity has been reported to them by an outside user.