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April 22, 2020 12:03 am
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Qzuxena_kEc/whos-behind-the-reopen-domain-surge
Who's Behind the 'Reopen' Domain Surge?
Inspired by a thread on Reddit, KrebsOnSecurity has been investigating possible incidences of state-led astroturfing to put pressure on U.S. states to ease, end, or reduce the extent of coronavirus lockdowns. From the article: The Reddit discussion focused on a handful of new domains -- including reopenmn.com, reopenpa.com, and reopenva.com -- that appeared to be tied to various gun rights groups in those states. Their registrations have roughly coincided with contemporaneous demonstrations in Minnesota, California and Tennessee where people showed up to protest quarantine restrictions over the past few days. Suspecting that these were but a subset of a larger corpus of similar domains registered for every state in the union, KrebsOnSecurity ran a domain search report at DomainTools [an advertiser on this site], requesting any and all domains registered in the past month that begin with "reopen" and end in ".com." That lookup returned approximately 150 domains; in addition to those named after the individual 50 states, some of the domains refer to large American cities or counties, and others to more general concepts, such as "reopeningchurch.com" or "reopenamericanbusiness.com." Many of the domains are still dormant, leading to parked pages and registration records obscured behind privacy protection services. But a review of other details about these domains suggests a majority of them are tied to various gun rights groups, state Republican Party organizations, and conservative think tanks, religious and advocacy groups. KrebsOnSecurity set up a Google spreadsheet documenting much of the domain information sourced in the story. Someone by the name of Michael Murphy told Mother Jones in an interview that they registered thousands of dollars worth of "reopen" and "liberate" domains to keep them out of the hands of people trying to organize protests. KrebsOnSecurity has not been able to validate this report, but did note that the registrant name Michael Murphy was associated with more than 50 reopen domains that were registered within an hour of each other on April 17 -- between 3:25 p.m. ET and 4:43 ET.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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