Miamacs - 11:48 pm on Sep 25, 2007 (gmt 0)

Forget the obligatory character from a "different charset".
( besides it's not always the dot. nor do they make any sense in neither Chinese encodings )

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Forget it.
Most of these domains don't even exist.
( Go and check their whois. You did think of that, didn't you? )

Yeah, that means the URL you see on the SERPs is not a real URL.

Someone feeds Google with data which transforms into something else by the time it gets stored in its database / displayed.

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Not sure how much of this has *anything* to do with China either.
I'm yet to see a Chinese ( .cn ) landing page.
All of them are in the US, UK, NL, RU... no real pattern there.

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I'm not sure if the fake non-existent domain names aren't saying .cn to divert your attention from something really important.

And boy did they do a good job with it, I was surprised at the level of uh... hmm... well, interesting emotions and remarks vented towards East Asia all of a sudden.

Tracking the activity and remnants of previous batches of the same cr@p... this kind of an attack has been tested during the summer, and this latest rush was initiated only like... 3 weeks ago. All the domains that were registered to be the landing pages are about a month old at most...

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Have seen some hosting companies removing subdomains by the bulk on which the same plague was spreading. By the time I got there they got rid of everything, still the SERPs would show the pattern you see with the "almost .cn" spam pages... scraped content, almost exact same filesize, varying everything and anything and coming up for just as much. ... where TrustRank isn't a factor. Meaning obscure, non-competitive, not so monitored stuff. Yahoo! and Google have their thresholds for trust set high enough at the moment for 1,2,3,4 word searches to scare away all the SEO wannabes for a lifetime *smirk*

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Well, whatever, just stop bashing China and Japan... ( at least stop saying it as if they were like... evil twins plotting to take over the world together. Although it'd be real fun news to see them developing new ties of this depth. )

Stop and think for a moment: Check the IPs, redirects and landing pages. As I said, I haven't really seen a single Chinese IP / real .cn domain name so far.

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*cough*

But then again, you better stay away from the fire.
Just don't click a title that's a URL ( Yahoo! ) or uses English words yet... it doesn't make sense in English.

[edited by: Miamacs at 11:53 pm (utc) on Sep. 25, 2007]