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So when is ICANN going after the other million or so domains that have intentionally bogus contact info?

What a crock. I betcha you'll see someone gloating about knocking it offline somewhere, and then you'll have your mystery voter.

I don't know if this is just coincidence...I tried to open FR on my Cox account & aquired a trojan. Maybe my tin foil wasn't on tight enough.

So when is ICANN going after the other million or so domains that have intentionally bogus contact info?

ICANN just forwarded the bitch. GKG pulled the plug.

OK, I haven't read through all the posts, because I was just now able to login. Let me walk through what I had to do, because I tried the instructions on the Yahoo site about updating my hosts file, but it took some experimenting to do it in exactly the right way. I'm pretty savvy about computers, but was just not quite doing it right, so maybe my confession will help someone else out there struggling. (it was also a lot of a lot of fun trying to solve this with the constant work interruptions. Don't these people know about PRIORITIES?????)

I'm on Windows 98 at work, so here's what I had to do:
I opened Notepad in the Start-Programs-Accessories menu. (I found that Wordpad did NOT work for this procedure for me). Then I went to "open" and then navigated to the Windows file. I had to change the option to show "all files", and then located the 'hosts' file. It confused me at first because when the file opened up it was blank, so I wasn't sure it worked, but keep going. Then I pasted the following on the first line:
209.157.64.200 www.freerepublic.com
Then I went to "Save As" and had to navigate again to the Windows file as outlined above. Then I clicked on the "hosts" file listed there, and pressed the save button. It asked me if I wanted to replace the file, and answered "yes" As a note, I tried other options that had been suggested to save the file without any extension, which I did, but it was still adding some exentions to the file when it saved it. Only by the procedure I listed here was I finally able to get it done.

Anyway, that's my story, hope it helps someone. Ah, now I can work comfortably and without the feeling of panic that I don't know what's really going on in the world! I'll go and post this over in Yahoo to see if it helps anyone else who have a feeble brain like mine. Hope everyone has a great day!