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--- internet_security:domain_name_verification [2013/04/01 11:29]
tstetson created
+++ internet_security:domain_name_verification [2013/04/01 14:54] (current)
tstetson [Figuring out ANY domain]
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 ==== Verifying the site you think you are visiting ====
-To identify the website you are looking at, you need to look in the address bar of your web browser.  This is called the URL. \\
+To identify the website you are looking at, you need to look in the address bar of your web browser.  This is called the URL.
-For the three most popular browsers (Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome), our website address has been highlighted:\\
+For the three most popular browsers (Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome), our website address has been highlighted:
 Internet Explorer:\\
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 ==== Figuring out ANY domain ====
-To figure out the domain of the site you are visiting, look at the address bar.  Find the first slash (highlighted blue) after http: ⁄ ⁄ and read from right to left( <- ).  Ignore ALL other slashes (these are highlighted in red).  The first 2 segments are the domain (highlighted yellow).  Notice the segments are separated by periods.  The  weather segment is not part of the domain yahoo.com.\\
+To figure out the domain of the site you are visiting, look at the address bar.  Find the first slash (highlighted blue) after %%http://%% and read from right to left( <- ).  Ignore ALL other slashes (these are highlighted in red).  The first 2 segments are the domain (highlighted yellow).  Notice the segments are separated by periods.  The  weather segment is not part of the domain yahoo.com.\\
 {{:documentation:domain:yahooexample.png|}}\\
 In this case the domain is yahoo.com.  Everything else around the yahoo.com is extra information yahoo.com needs to display the information you want.
+Sometimes the scammers get tricky.  Consider the following URL:
+<code>http://www.caltel.com.rx3trodup.ru/accountaccess/customerlockout.html</code>
+we need to first find the proper slash.
+<code>http://www.caltel.com.rx3trodup.ru/accountaccess/customerlockout.html
+                                  ^ This is the slash we're looking for.</code>
+Now we go back 2 segments.  The first segment is ru.  The second segment is rx3trodup.  Therefore the domain is rx3trodup.ru.  It doesn't matter that you see %%www.caltel.com%% in this URL - this link will not direct you to caltel.com but instead to rx3trodup.ru.  The %%www.caltel.com%% is only in the URL to make you believe you would be going to %%www.caltel.com%%.  Armed with this information you can prevent yourself from getting scammed.
+Another example
+<code>http://abaloney.net/caltel.com/fixaccount/member%20page%20
+                   ^ This is the slash we're looking for.</code>
+The domain for this site is abaloney.net, and this site has nothing to do with CalTel as well.
+Final example:
+<code>http://trending.caltel.lolreport.myhamms.org/
+                                            ^ This is the slash we're looking for.</code>
+Going back 2 segments gives us the domain name of %%myhamms.org%% - definitely not a website that belongs to %%caltel.com%%.

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