My guess is there are more. I tried visiting www.newaol.com but Netscape just gets stuck at “374 bytes read”, and IE just says “Website found, waiting for reply…”. I realize this may not be the best place to post this, but oh well. This is Mundane Pointless Stuff I Must Share, is it not?
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The whois claims that newAOL is owned by AOL.
I have no idea why they would be accessing your ports. I would be interested in finding out.
The page actually worked for me. It redirected me to free.aol.com for an offer of 700 free hours.
Thanks for the additional info. I did just realize that I was at the Nullsoft site going to download WinAmp 2.71 when these probes started coming in. I know that AOL owns Nullsoft, but why these probes?
Just noticed, got a recent probe from 64.12.168.208 at port 1608.
Just as an interesting topic switch, does anyone have any AOL horror or dissatisfaction stories, or general AOL evilness, to share?
I read in the http://www.aolwatch.org newsletter that AOL has registered domain names like AOhell, AOLworld, and other various domains that escape me. Seems a little odd.
Idunno. Crackers might have zombified the newaol.com servers. There are so many people out to get AOL. People post up new hacks into them all the time. And it doesn’t take a voodoo priest (or anyone with skill beyond a script kiddie) to do that kind of stuff.
I got one of those AOL CDs that tout 500 free hours. The kicker is that they all have to be used within ONE MONTH!! Hmph. Considering a 30 day period as a month, that only leaves me 120 hours to work, and sleep.
Personally, I like putting the discs in a microwave. they really look interesting, all fried like that. I’m thinking about plastering my wall with pieces of them. (Now that should protect you from microwave radiation, the more it sparks in creation, the better!)
However, as stated earlier, I was on the Nullsoft site, and we all know that AOL bought Nullsoft a while back.
Plus, I doubt that they would put the server at newaol.com. It would’t seem quite right.
You think 500 hours a month is too much to be used? As said in his earlier post, when pricciar visited newaol.com he got an offer of 700 hours. That would leave you 1.4193548387096774 hours to do anything but use AOL each day.
Quite a few companies are starting to do this to prevent people from “cyber-squatting”, or from setting up sites which are close in name, but are intended to impugn the company in question.
I read an article sometime back, in Wired online IIRC, which was about a company that had registered hundreds of names which were misspellings of popular company names, an example being something like “Yahhoo.com”. Apparently, URLs are often entered incorrectly, and this company was exploiting that by selling banner space to poor spellers. Weird indeed.
